Quote

We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
Architect
Artist
Designer
Diarist
Engineer
Inventor
Mathematician
Philosopher
Poet
Scientist
University Teacher
Visual Artist
Writer
Milton
Massachusetts
Bucky Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller
R Buckminster Fuller
Politics
Liberalism
Four
Twelve
Redesign
Three
Accomplished
Fold
Care
Increase
Folds
Find
Therefore
Operating
Take
Percent
Mechanical
Economy
Overall
Everybody
Efficiency

More quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

Image
Don't change the man. Change his environment.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Television is the third parent.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Image
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
R. Buckminster Fuller