“Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab.It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trimtab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.So I said, call me Trimtab.”
“Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab.It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trimtab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.So I said, call me Trimtab.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
“Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.”
R. Buckminster Fuller“Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.”
R. Buckminster Fuller“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
R. Buckminster Fuller“I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.”
R. Buckminster Fuller“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
R. Buckminster Fuller“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”
R. Buckminster Fuller“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
R. Buckminster Fuller“Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.”
R. Buckminster Fuller“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.”
R. Buckminster Fuller“Truth is a tendency.”
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