angular topology

appropriate technology

brain

change

competence

complementarity

design science

dymaxion

earning a living

earth

energy slave

ephemeralization

form

gestation

great circle

great integrity

high frequency energy event

human scale

humanity

information

intertransformability

level of aggression

love

naivete

nature

omni-interaccommodative

particular

pattern integrity

poet

politics

pollution

precession

proverb

quanta module

respect

revolution

seeability

spaceship earth

sunclipse / sunsight

synergetic advantage

synergetics

technology

television

tensegrity

thinking

trust

understanding

vector equilibrium

world game

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

architect

designer

inventor

systems theorist

innovator in the field of

architecture

systems theory

diarist

intellectual movement

high-tech architecture

scientist

university teacher

visual artist

engineer

philosopher

artist

scientific organization

American Association for the Advancement of Science

cause of death

natural causes

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Letters

World War I

design

is that which deals exclusively with special-case experiences.

Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. (Buckminster Fuller)

 cannot be anticipated. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

is a drive in human beings (a drive to demonstrate competence) alongside those of fear and longing.

At Yale University in the Child Study Clinic, he began to be suspicious that there were drives in human beings other than those of fear and longing which have been the assumed fundamental drives. He developed a hypothetical working assumption that there was a drive of the new life to demonstrate competence, and began working with his own child when she was two and one-half years old. He took an electric typewriter and colored the keys to correspond with the touch system. He then colored his child's fingernails to correspond with the keys each finger should operate. (buckminster 'education' pdf)

is the use of technology and resources to maximum advantage, with minimal expenditure of energy and material.

noting or pertaining to R. Buckminster Fuller's concept of the use of technology and resources to maximum advantage, with minimal expenditure of energy and material.' http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dymaxion

is that quantity of energy (ability to do work) which, when used to construct and drive non-human infrastructure (machines, roads, power grids, fuel, draft animals, wind-driven pumps, etc.) replaces a unit of human labor (actual work).

An energy slave is that quantity of energy (ability to do work) which, when used to construct and drive non-human infrastructure (machines, roads, power grids, fuel, draft animals, wind-driven pumps, etc.) replaces a unit of human labor (actual work). An energy slave does the work of a person, through the consumption of energy in the non-human infrastructure.[1] (wikipedia)

is a noun in architecture and a verb in industry.

In architecture, form is a noun... in industry, form is a verb.Buckminster Fuller

is a verb in industry and a noun in architecture.

is the lag between the conception of something and its birth in nature.

I saw that nature has various categories of unique gestation lags between conception of something and its birth. In humans, conception to birth is nine months. In electronics, it is two years between inventive conception and industrialized production. In aeronautics, it is five years between invention and operating use. In automobiles, it is ten years between conception and mass-production. In railroading, the gestation is fifteen years. In big-city skyscraper construction, the gestational lag is twenty-five years. For instance, it was twenty-five years between the accidental falling of a steel bar into fresh cement and the practical use of steel-reinforced concrete in major buildings. Dependent on the size and situation, the period of gestation in the single-family residences varies between fifty and seventy-five years. (buckminster 'grunch' .pdf)

is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

is a form of order inducing anti-entropy.

information' that is, as Buckminster Fuller described, a form of order inducing 'anti-entropy.

is, in contrast to truth, which consists of generalized principles, non-differentiable and integral.

Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semi-metaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omni-embracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.'

is one of the species that does not have roots and is successful by virtue of his dynamic ability to advance and retreat. He is mobile.

Man is one of the species that does not have roots and is successful by virtue of his dynamic ability to advance and retreat. He is mobile. Man's little legs are very small, and he doesn't cover much territory compared, for example, with a sea gull. Man, therefore, has tended to think of himself as being more like a tree simply because of the diminutive size of his daily peregrinations.. He found it difficult to get along without close association with other men, and up to World War I, with minor exceptions, remained essentially within a very small geographical pattern that is, the territory or even the town in which he was born. (buckminster 'education' .pdf)

is trying very hard to make us succeed, but it does not depend on us, as we are not the only experiment.

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

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. (Buckminster Fuller)

's most sincere form is actually listening to what another has to say.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. Bryant H. McGill

is the dismissal of irrelevancies, of disposing of what doesn't fit while highlighting what does, of connecting the dots and perceiving patterns.

E.J. White, who worked with Fuller, says that: 'For Fuller, the thinking process is not a matter of putting anything into the brain or taking anything out... he defines thinking as the dismissal of irrelevancies, as the definition of relationships' in other words, thinking is simultaneously a form of filtering out the data that doesn't fit while highlighting the things that do fit together We dismiss whatever is an 'irrelevancy' and retain only what fits, we form knowledge by 'connecting the dots' we understand things by perceiving patterns

is, along with being understood, one of humanity's prime drives. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.

One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs. (Buckminster Fuller)

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