Buckminster Fuller Quotes

• Al propio Buckminster Fuller le gustaba afirmar que lo que parece estar sucediendo en el momento nunca es la historia completa de lo que realmente está pasando. Le gustaba señalar que, para la abeja melífera, lo importante es la miel. Pero la abeja es al mismo tiempo el vehículo de la naturaleza para llevar a cabo la polinización cruzada de las flores. La interconexión es un principio fundamental de la naturaleza. Nada está aislado. Cada acontecimiento se conecta con los demás.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Flor, Importante, Fundamentos

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• Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem.

  Jonathon Keats

  Technology, Google, Together

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• There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect of nature.

  Jonathon Keats

  Car, Claims, Aspect

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• To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent.

  Jonathon Keats

  Escribir, pensar, ideas

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• I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has identified a scale of action I think is actually really compelling.

  Jonathon Keats

  Thinking, Talking, Domes

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• [Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as a result, you have something like: we've got bad weather in New York City; let's put a dome over it. And so I don't want to put a dome over Manhattan and I hope that nobody who ends up reading the book wants to do so as a result.

  Jonathon Keats

  New York, Military, Book

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• I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic worldview that I find horrific.

  Jonathon Keats

  World, Want, Horrific

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• [Buckminster] Fuller era un operador independiente al que se le ocurrían esas locas formas de combinar cosas sin ningún tipo de ataduras y el hecho de que el cambio mundial ahora se está produciendo dentro de la corporación en general, y que la disrupción es irónicamente lo que hacen las corporaciones.

  Jonathon Keats

  Independientes, Cuerdas atadas, Corporaciones

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• Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless has a lot of merit to it for the fact that [Buckminster Fuller] is recognizing much larger patterns, seeking much larger patterns and seeking much larger ways of trying to solve for the problem of unhygienic conditions in slums. They really were unhygienic. Whether his family was living in the slum is debatable but they were unhygienic. That needed to be addressed. He was attempting to address it.

  Jonathon Keats

  Trying, Patterns, Way

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• I think that [Buckminster] Fuller certainly would have found a way in which to be funded by Google in a way that he was funded by the Marine Corps and everybody else. He would have remained obstinately his own creature.

  Jonathon Keats

  Marine, Thinking, Google

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• I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might - why my publisher would publish this book [You belong to the universe] about it long after he's dead and irrelevant by many standards has to do with the fact that he was in a sense coming up with this job for himself that is the job that we now refer to when we speak about world change.

  Jonathon Keats

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

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• Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that [Buckminster] Fuller is talking about when he talked about putting a dome over Manhattan, which is to say an attempt at integrating all of these different technologies in a way that makes for a city that, without having an actual dome, thermodynamically manages the heat flow for that urban environment and therefore makes it so that it is a highly efficient machine for a living or a dwelling machine as he would have preferred in terms of thermodynamically optimizing it.

  Jonathon Keats

  Technology, Thinking, Talking

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• My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to imagine alternate worlds, to writing about [Buckminster] Fuller who was the ultimate world man creating all sorts of alternate worlds and believing that they were imminent to my own work of - for instance, a project that I've been working on for some year and a half, two years now that continues to evolve has been what I call Deep Time Photography.

  Jonathon Keats

  Photography, Believe, Book

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• Volvemos a [Buckminster] Fuller. Volvemos al reconocimiento de patrones, que pueden ser ciertos o no. Pero que, sin embargo, tienen suficiente apariencia como para que merezca la pena explorarlos. Para mí, ahí es donde empieza mi trabajo.

  Jonathon Keats

  May, Patterns, Recognition

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• As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. The point is that, there's always two points of view out there, and we need to increase our ability to allow another point of view. Then we have a better chance for peace.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Teacher, Views, Two

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• Creo que sorprendentemente poca gente sabe ahora mismo mucho sobre [Buckminster] Fuller más allá de unos pocos puntos realmente icónicos. Inventó la cúpula geodésica y acuñó el término "nave espacial Tierra", y eso es prácticamente todo lo que sabe la gente que ha oído hablar de él. Y me sorprende la cantidad de gente que no ha oído hablar de él.

  Jonathon Keats

  Thinking, People, Domes

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• [Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.

  Paul Laffoley

  People, Way, Toes

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• What I think is really interesting is to look at the culture of disruption and of world-changing in terms of what [Buckminster] Fuller was doing and to draw the contrast more than the similarity.

  Jonathon Keats

  Thinking, Interesting, Culture

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• Le dije: "Bueno, ¿por qué crees en la Botella de Klein?". Dijo: "Porque puedo imaginármela". Le dije: "No tienes que imaginar una cinta de Mobius. La tienes delante de ti". Pero [Buckminster Fuller] no podía ver cómo eso podía implicar una tapa en cruz, es decir, algo que no podía reducirse a una superficie bidimensional. Y así es. Es porque él estaba pensando que la matriz era la cosa que una mosca podría caminar sobre el borde, como un toroide.

  Paul Laffoley

  Creer, Pensar, Dos

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• The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles.

  Paul Laffoley

  Plato, Way, Bigs

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• I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius strip. Because he believed in the Klein Bottle, you see. And I said, "How in hell can you claim to believe in the Klein Bottle and think that the Mobius strip is dubious?" He said, "Well, it's a torus." I don't know what he had in his mind as a mathematical background, because I don't think he got topology. Because, in other words, the Mobius strip didn't have angles in it.

  Paul Laffoley

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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• I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of, looked like him a little bit, you know? I thought it was great.

  Paul Laffoley

  Hair, Age, Littles

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• We would go on retreats to Florence. The people in the planning team got to be good friends and so we did things like, we'd all go over to the Fort Belvedere in Florence and take that thing over. Because it's up for grabs, you can rent it. And then have New Age meetings and all that kind of stuff. [Buckminster] Fuller loved to go there.

  Paul Laffoley

  Team, Good Friend, People

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• We clearly recognize the need for something that is what [Buckminster Fuller] represents and therefore it becomes really useful and really interesting to look at the ways in which world changing today totally misses everything that was valuable.

  Jonathon Keats

  Interesting, Missing, Today

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• [Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air flow and the Zephyr and these cars in the time period that were made by mainstream automakers. It was far enough in the future, far enough after that point that nobody really bothered to fact-check.

  Jonathon Keats

  Talking, Air, Car

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