R. Buckminster Fuller

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Truth is a tendency.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

God is a verb, not a noun.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.