I've kind of always done diagrams. It helped me think.

I mean, even New York isn't in any great shape anymore in relation to the rest of the world.

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

I could do Superman, the Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, this kind of stuff [at school]. And kids would give me their lunch money to have these things.

My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.

[My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he taught classes at the Harvard Business School. And he was a member of the Harvard Faculty Club, which I am, too, because what I did is... I have the same name as my father, only Jr.

[Buckminster Fuller] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once, but he kept coming back.