R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

People who have a new idea often just stop having an old idea.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

To innovate is not to reform.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Be skeptical, question authority, be a rebel. Do not conform and don’t be ordinary. Remember, all human progress is the result of far-sighted people challenging orthodoxy, tradition and rich, powerful, vested interests.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

The future belongs to those who change it.

What is now commonplace was once not, and I think that's a testament to what it means to really break the mold and push the limits.

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.