#on

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#designer #economist #emerging #evolutionary #inventor

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#common #earth #everybody #fate #going

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#depend #does #experiment #hard #make

Great 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 Fuller

#ambitious #because #become #behind #effectively

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#found #going #how #i #often

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#conventional #conventional way #doing #fresh #just

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#case #either #i #i think #sometimes

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#capabilities #educational #faculties #happens #innate

You can never learn less, you can only learn more. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#less #more #never #only #you

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#badly #emergence #emergency #enough #ideas