detail from Dj Olive's 2008 Whitney Biennial installation.
photo by Stefano Giovannini
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. R. Buckminster Fuller A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. R. Buckminster Fuller By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. R. Buckminster Fuller Dictators never invent their own opportunities. R. Buckminster Fuller Don't fight forces, use them. R. Buckminster Fuller Either war is obsolete, or men are. R. Buckminster Fuller Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. R. Buckminster Fuller Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. R. Buckminster Fuller God is a verb, not a noun. R. Buckminster Fuller God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. R. Buckminster Fuller Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead. R. Buckminster Fuller 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. R. Buckminster Fuller Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. R. Buckminster Fuller How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. R. Buckminster Fuller Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. R. Buckminster Fuller I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. R. Buckminster Fuller I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. R. Buckminster Fuller If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference. R. Buckminster Fuller If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. R. Buckminster Fuller Integrity is the essence of everything successful. R. Buckminster Fuller Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. R. Buckminster Fuller Love is metaphysical gravity. R. Buckminster Fuller Man knows so much and does so little. R. Buckminster Fuller Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. R. Buckminster Fuller My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. R. Buckminster Fuller Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. R. Buckminster Fuller Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. R. Buckminster Fuller Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. R. Buckminster Fuller 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. R. Buckminster Fuller People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. R. Buckminster Fuller Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. R. Buckminster Fuller Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. R. Buckminster Fuller Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. R. Buckminster Fuller Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. R. Buckminster Fuller Tension is the great integrity. R. Buckminster Fuller The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. R. Buckminster Fuller The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. R. Buckminster Fuller The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. R. Buckminster Fuller There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. R. Buckminster Fuller Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. R. Buckminster Fuller Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. R. Buckminster Fuller Truth is a tendency. R. Buckminster Fuller War is the ultimate tool of politics. R. Buckminster Fuller We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. R. Buckminster Fuller 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. R. Buckminster Fuller What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. 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. R. Buckminster Fuller You can never learn less, you can only learn more. R. Buckminster Fuller
"what a space a difference makes" _dennis del zotto, ongoalia, '96
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