R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

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

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

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

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

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

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Don't fight forces, use them.

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

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

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.