8 Quotes by Buckminster Fuller

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

The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended

What is my job on the planet? What is it that needs doing, that I know something about, that probably won’t happen unless I take responsibility for it?

Whether it is to be utopia or oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

Get ready the greatest new educational facility at the approximate dynamic population center of the North American continent

It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting high technology from weaponry to livingry.