R. Buckminster Fuller

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

“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”

“The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.”

“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”

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

“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”

“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.”

“Don't fight forces, use them.”

“I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.”

“The best way to predict the future is to design it.”

“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”

“Dare to be naive.”

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”

“All of humanity is now entering a final examination. Whether we graduate or not is up to us.”

“You can't learn less.”

“A problem adequately stated is a problem half-solved.”

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.”

“Love is a verb.”