Rik Converse

“All the present bureaucracies of political governments, great religious organizations, and all big businesses find that physical success for all humanity would be devastating to the perpetuation of their ongoing activities. This is because all of them are founded on the premise of ameliorating individual cases while generally exploiting on behalf of their respective political, religious, or business organizations the condition of no-where-nearly-enough-life-support-for-all and its resultant great human suffering and discontent.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path

“Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

“Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth