Buckminster Fuller: Doing

Buckminster Fuller was American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and noninterfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal. Principles never contradict principles.... The synergetic integral of the totality of principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans — in pure principle — we do not and never will know all the principles.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

“War is obsolete. It could never have been done before. Only ten years ago… technology reached the point where it could be done. Since then the invisible technological-capability revolution has made it ever easier so to do.”

Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

“But we can do so much now, with so little, that we can take care of everybody. That’s why the idea of scarcity is all wrong.”

Buckminster Fuller

Source: From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)