black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Continous Programming Tensegrity
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Fate Peace Ubuntu
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Degrees Devil Play
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Belong Serve Universe
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Support War Wisdom
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Environment He Man Men
Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Enduringly Humanity Less Reached Technology
Television is the third parent.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Parent Television Thirds
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Child Children Newborn Years
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Emergencies Enough Ideas
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Gun Moving War
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inspirational Integrity Success
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children New Relationship Technology
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Born Genius Technology
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Done Needs Things