Buckminster Fuller
Author of Synergetics I and II, Critical Path...

I am a passenger on the spaceship, Earth.
- Buckminster Fuller

I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am, I know 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.
- Buckminster Fuller

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
- Buckminster Fuller

"To how many places does nature carry out PI when she makes each successive bubble in the white-cresting surf of each successive wave before nature finds out that PI can never be resolved?... And at what moment in the making of each separate bubble in Universe does nature decide to terminate her eternally frustrated calculating and instead turn out a fake sphere? I answered myself that I don't think nature is using PI or any of the irrational fraction constants of physics."
-Buckminster Fuller(Synergetics II, p. 233).

The critically-hailed exuberant one-man play based on the life and writings of the visionary thinker-inventor-philosopher Buckminster Fuller.

?Physical, metaphysical, intellectual, eclectic, challenging and hugely entertaining.? -L.A. Times

More information about the performance available at the Buckminster Fuller Institute

It is impossible to make significant change by force.
The only way to make significant change is to make the thing you want to change obsolete.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller

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, give every human on Earth a chance. We dwell instead on petty things. We kill each other. We build monuments to ourselves. What a waste of time. Think of it. What a chance we have...

Critical Path
Buckminster Fuller
Copyright 1981
ISBN 0312174918