I live on Earth at present, and I donโt know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing โ a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process โ an integral function of the universe.
R. Buckminster FullerThe dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
R. Buckminster FullerGod is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.
R. Buckminster FullerSynergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
R. Buckminster FullerThere is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
R. Buckminster FullerYou do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others. Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
R. Buckminster Fuller