The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended

— 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 in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief. Advancing science has now discovered that all the known cases of biological extinction have been caused by overspecialization, whose concentration of only selected genes sacrifices general adaptability. Thus, the specialist’s brief for pinpointing brevity is dubious. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds bias that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which in turn leads to war.

— R. Buckminster Fuller