435 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it’s really a different kind of life.

If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program – immediately, if not sooner.

It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve.

I look for what needs to be done.

Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.

I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don’t tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I’m talking about.

The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy.