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I was dissatisfied with abstract, weightless, unstable, ageless, temperatureless, straight-line-defined squares and cubes as models. |
It is a basic principle that you only discover what you had had by virtue of losing it. |
Don't fight forces, use them. |
All individuals of humanity are looking for the answer to what the individual can do that can't be done by great nations and enterprises. |
Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law. |
All structures consist of a balanced interaction between tensive and compressive forces. |
The worth of a patent is not established by the merit of the invention but by the expertness with which its claims of invention are written. |
In architecture, form is a noun. In industry, form is a verb. |
My definition of "believe" means to accept an explanation of physical phenomena without any experiential evidence. |
"Mortgage" means "on death terms." |
One of the important characteristics of most economic trends is that they are too slow in their motion to be visible to humans. |
Then there came a very bad hog market in 1926. |
In 1922 there were about 125 independent automobile companies. |
We have been witnessing a series of accelerations and slowdowns. The accelerations always occur in peacetime and the slowdowns in wartime. |
Scientifically speaking, there are no directions of "up" or "down" in Universe--only the angular directions "in," "out," and "around." |
It was necessary that I reach so far beyond the power structures' vision... that my concepts would appear to be a pleasant "pipe dream." |
8. Sincerely yours, Buckminster Fuller |
7. You have what is most important in life -- initiative. You will find the world responding to your earnest initiative. |
6. That is what you want to know -- the truth about everything -- and then the truth about combinations of things. |
5. Try making experiments of anything you conceive and are intensely interested in. Don't be disappointed if something doesn't work. |
