“A dollar bill in time to come will be recognized as a time-captured and saved unit of energy by man.”
—Buckminster Fuller, 1938
“This metallic characteristic of money is no longer a primarily essential part of the internal U.S. dollar. Not only is the industrial worker of America willing to interpolate his work stint into a paper dollar-an intrinsically worthless medium-but actually prefers it to a metallic dollar.”
—Buckminster Fuller
“In the course of early trading, a metallic money was developed as a concentrate medium of exchange and a belief grew up as to its potentially direct value, which in due course was improperly termed "credit." Money, metalically was relatively the safest medium of temporary value maintenance, being almost non-corrosive and non-substitutable due to its rarity.”
—Buckminster Fuller
"Bits break up finite wholes into finite parts."
—Buckminster Fuller, 1975
“We are in for the greatest revolution in history. If it's to pull the top down and it's bloody, all lose. If it is a design-science revolution to elevate the bottom and all others as well to unprecedented new heights, all will live to dare spontaneously to speak and live and love the truth, strange though it often may seem.”