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R. Buckminster Fuller quotes about design

American Inventor July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983

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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
R. Buckminster Fuller quote: "It is new design by architects versus world revolution by..."
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership. R. Buckminster Fuller
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity. R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller quote: "I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the..."
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller quote: "A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor,..."
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. R. Buckminster Fuller

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