Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem.

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.

I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible.

I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite.

[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basically aeronautics hadn't been invented.

I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down.

It is not how many times we get lost, but how many times we seek the path, again and again, that determines our level of consciousness.

Look at me, " she demanded. He whirled around and held out his arms. "What do you want me to say? Aye. I'm a dragon!

The prayers of Christians are in vain if they do not plan any corresponding actions

There are certain relationships that just don't fit into "good" or "bad"; they transcend it.

Life is way too short for boring cars.

The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

I'm extremely proud of the ability to really go forth and minister.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

Returns decrease as motion increases.