Buckminster Fuller

GPTKB entity

Properties (41)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Architect
Author
Inventor
Philosopher
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Gold_Medal_from_the_American_Institute_of_Architects
Presidential Medal of Freedom
gptkbp:born July 12, 1895
gptkbp:children gptkb:Buckminster_Fuller_Jr.
gptkb:Allegra_Fuller_Snyder
Yvette_Fuller
gptkbp:died July 1, 1983
gptkbp:education gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkbp:famousQuote “We are all in this together.”
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
“The future is not a gift, it is an achievement.”
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
“We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.”
“We are all connected.”
“The best way to predict the future is to design it.”
“To change anything, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
“There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.”
“The universe is not just a place, it is a process.”
“The most important thing is to be able to see the world as it is.”
“I am convinced that the only thing that will save the world is the world itself.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the world itself.”
“The world is a complex system.”
“The world is a living organism.”
“We are all part of the same cosmic process.”
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
“You can’t change the world if you don’t change yourself.”
“We_are_all_astronauts_on_a_little_spaceship_called_Earth.”
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Buckminster Fuller
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Richard_Buckminster_Fuller
gptkb:Seymour_Papert
gptkb:R._Buckminster_Fuller_Institute
Marshall McLuhan
gptkbp:knownFor Geodesic dome
Dymaxion map
Tensegrity_structures
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Anne_Hewlett