Цитаты из книги You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future

In those ever-changing circumstances, he consistently maintained that the innate curiosity of students needed only to connect with worldly experience for them to become comprehensive thinkers, and he experimented constantly to find the optimal way to foster that connection — to have the greatest impact on the most people.

The time has come to release Fuller from the zany sci-fi designs that made him notorious, and to rescue him from the groupies who have impounded him as a cultish prophet. Today Fuller is rightly renowned, but for the wrong reasons. We need to rediscover the foundations of his innovation, and to emulate his balanced use of…

Traveling the world, he ran seminars and lectured to the masses. His practical approach to environmentalism and peace made him a hero of the counterculture, and his domes became the standard architecture of communes. He also had the attention of world leaders, from Indira Gandhi to Lyndon Johnson. All was as he’d…

In all of his misfortune, he detected a pattern: He was consistently ahead of his time. His ideas were fit for the future. The most he could ever do was to anticipate what would be needed. In order to anticipate more accurately, he began a systematic study of all the world’s resources and human living requirements, and…

In the tech industry, Fuller’s name is synonymous with unbounded creativity. (Along with Albert Einstein and John Lennon, he is one of the seventeen icons featured in Apple’s original Think Different campaign.)