All R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Quotes about “Design”

“A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.”
“It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.”
“I am enthusiastic over humanityâ€™s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterdayâ€™s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.”
“I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.”
“For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.”
“Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.”
“Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.”
“There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.”
“on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals”

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