Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

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.

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

God is a verb, not a noun.

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.

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