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 - Buckminster Fuller

Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process. Industry paces economics. It changes the tools, a great ecological change. And in that manner we come finally to everyday life. The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of adjustment. To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are socioeconomic ploys — legally enacted game-playing — agreed upon only between overwhelmingly powerful socioeconomic individuals and by them imposed upon human society and its all unwitting members.

Science... the ways it does its calculating that approximately nobody going in at a basic level can gain any sense of the whole.