black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.

R. Buckminster Fuller

People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Light People Ships
It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Computer Home Stay Universe
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Immediately Problem Realistically
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Events Fundamental Pattern
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Law Past Thinking
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Experiments Men More
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Ability Person Wealth
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Dark Persistence Thinking
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Believe Blind Men Spots
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Competence Enormous
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Jobs Numbers Politics
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Design Political World
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Blessed Technology Thinking
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Better Get Little Machine Politically