I believe I am a verb

Bucky Fuller was a man who literally was standing on the edge of a bridge, preparing to leap to his own death, instead decided he was going to dedicate his life to educating himself and creating new ways to use and expand science to benefit every human being living on what he refered to as Spaceship Earth.

Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science



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, 1980



I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced.

- from Grunch of Giants 1983







There is no energy crisis food crisis or environmental crisis. There is a crisis of ignorance.



"I am enthusiastic over humanitys extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. 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 yesterdays fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem."



Buckminster Fuller Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth



"The function of what I call design science is to solve problems by introducing into the environment new artifacts, the availability of which will induce their spontaneous employment by humans and thus, coincidentally, cause humans to abandon their previous problem-producing behaviors and devices. For example, when humans have a vital need to cross the roaring rapids of a river, as a design scientist I would design them a bridge, causing them, I am sure, to abandon spontaneously and forever the risking of their lives by trying to swim to the other shore."



R. Buckminster Fuller from Cosmography



"I am certain that none of the world's problems which we are all perforce thinking about today have any hope of solution except through all of world around society's individuals becoming thoroughly and comprehensively self-educated. Only thereby will society be able to identify and inter-communicate the vital problems of total world society. Only thereafter may humanity effectively sort out and put those problems into order of importance for solution in respect to the most fundamental principles governing man's survival and enjoyment of life on Earth."



Buckminster Fuller