It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
R. Buckminster FullerHuman beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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 FullerThe explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
R. Buckminster FullerThe things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done - that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
R. Buckminster Fuller