"Humanity is about to discover that what ever it needs to do and knows how to do it can always afford to do and that in fact is only and all it can afford to do"

Buckinster Fuller

"My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted."
— Buckminster Fuller

"Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before-that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment."
— Buckminster Fuller 1980

"Failure of of humans on planet Earth to fulfill satisfactorily and faithfully their generalized information gathering and local problem-solving in support of eternal regeneration of Universe simply means death of this particular planetary installation of mind endowed humans. The failure of humans means the function must be performed by other phenomena capable of embracing and reliably serving the information agglomerating and problem-solving function. The enternal Universe show must go on."

Buckminster Fuller, 1983

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

-- Buckminster Fuller

"Design Science is the positive extension of passive resistence. Passive resistence bloodlessly dissipates the undesirable. Design Science bloodlessly gains the desirable."

-- Buckminster Fuller, 1973