By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."
R. Buckminster FullerGreat nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster FullerI have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
R. Buckminster FullerHumans beings always do the most intelligent thingโฆafter theyโve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
R. Buckminster FullerI am enthusiastic over humanityโs extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterdayโs fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.
R. Buckminster Fuller