R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• 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.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beauty, Beautiful, Niece

• You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Change, Thinking, Giving

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

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Artist, Design, Synthesis

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.116, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beauty, Creativity, Thinking

  "The Universal Book of Mathematics". Book by David Darling, p. 34, November 8, 2004.

• It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Design, Political, World

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.54, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• I am enthusiastic over humanity’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 yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mean, Thinking, Piano

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

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Strength, Leadership, Guitar

• 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.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Successful, Technology, Years

• Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Design, Tools

• There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Men, Design

• Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Design, Graphic Design, Graphic

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.10, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• If we design the environment properly
  It will permit both child and adult to develop safely
  And to behave logically.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Men, Design

  "And It Came to Pass — Not to Stay".

• 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

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Order, Design, Priorities

  R. Buckminster Fuller “World Design Science Decade: Phase 1 Document 2”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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