...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.

On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the problem of what - the problem that [Buckminster Fuller] perceived as being the cause of his daughter's death and meningitis. I mean how you get from your daughter dying from meningitis to making a car with three wheels and saying that it's like a bird and a fish. That really is amazing.

At this point in history, the desperate need for building a sustainable society and for managing energy usage makes for a really - of vast importance that we need to place on where we live and how we live in those places.

To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles another.