R. Buckminster Fuller

If you change the environment, you change the people.

You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.

His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there's a good possibility that love is what I'd call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

Tension is the great integrity.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

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

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