R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes About Design

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  • Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.

  • When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

    "The Universal Book of Mathematics". Book by David Darling, p. 34, November 8, 2004.
  • on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals

    R. Buckminster Fuller “World Design Science Decade: Phase 1 Document 2”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
  • You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

  • There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

  • When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  • Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.

    R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.10, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
  • I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

  • For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.

  • I am enthusiastic over humanity’s 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 yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.

  • It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

    R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.54, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
  • A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

    R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.116, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
  • If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

    "And It Came to Pass — Not to Stay".
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R. Buckminster Fuller

  • Born: July 12, 1895
  • Died: July 1, 1983
  • Occupation: Architect