11 Buckminster Fuller Quotes on Design

Buckminster Fuller quotes on design

7. I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform humans, being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less... (1947)

23. Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. . . . Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.

27. Topology provides the synergetic means of ascertaining the values of any system of experiences. Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

50. Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken seperately.

60. This book is written with the conviction that there are no 'good' or 'bad' people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem. . . You and I didn't design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe.

71. I do not look upon human beings as good or bad. I don't think of my feet as a right foot and a wrong foot. ... I am a student of the effectiveness of the technological evolution in its all unexpected alterations of the preoccupations of humanity and in its all unexpected alterings of human behaviors and prospects.

97. There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings - and all the people sleeping in the slums.

100. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

101. You either make sense or you make money.

102. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

103. Less is more.