Buckminster Fuller

“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all he rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Mathusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”

“Probably our most polluted resource is the tactical information to which humanity spontaneously reflexes.”

“There are only four major problems confronting the world: ignorance, fear, greed, and zoning laws.”

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

“Dare to be naive.”

“I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.”

“When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

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