105 quotes
Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Synergetics Dictionary : The Mind of Buckminster Fuller (1986)
All sports are time control demonstrations...
Synergy means behavior of integral, aggregate, whole systems unpredicted by behaviors of any of their components or subassemblies of their components taken separately from the whole.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
The giants are the supra-national corporations. The book (Grunch of Giants) is about how evolution must cope with them.
Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
There's a built-in resistance to letting humanity be a success.
Norie Huddle interview (1981)
But it can hardly be read in a week. It takes some study.
Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
We're not just dealing in willingness. Humanity has to qualify to survive.
Norie Huddle interview (1981)
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession — not conscious planning — provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
Cosmography (1992)
All previous revolutions have been political—in them the have-not majority has attempted revengefully to pull down the economically advantaged minority. If realized, this historically greatest design revolution will joyously elevate all humanity to unprecedented heights.
Critical Path (1981)
Humanity is moving ever deeper into a crisis which has no precedent.
Norie Huddle interview (1981)
This is not a visible revolution and it is not political.
Norie Huddle interview (1981)
All the great metaphysical integrity of all the individuals, which is potential and inherent in the complex interactions of generalized principles, will always and only coexist eternally.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
Cosmography (1992)
They are not multi-national, but supra-national — above nations. They don't need any passports. They can go in and out of countries without permission from anyone.
Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.
But we can do so much now, with so little, that we can take care of everybody. That's why the idea of scarcity is all wrong.
Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
Science... the ways it does its calculating that approximately nobody going in at a basic level can gain any sense of the whole.
Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
Politics is absolutely hopeless. That's why everything has gone wrong.
Norie Huddle interview (1981)
Don't fight forces, use them.