R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

As the world becomes a more digital place, we cannot forget about the human connection.

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

Computers and smart devices are among the greatest intellectual gifts ever created for man but, if not balanced with human contact, may offer little to develop one's heart.

I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation.

I don't really get inspired by landscapes that much, it's all people.

Today's children will become tomorrow's civilization.

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.

Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.

I can't say I know how to change the society, but I share the feeling that this society is full of technology which depersonalizes people, which seems to drain a sense of reality from our lives. It's full of a lot of other things too.

Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.

I follow the way people change. I follow the way people, who are very antagonized to one another become very close to one another and vice-versa. Sometimes I follow the way people who are intimately close to each other move apart. This is my business as a novelist. It is not about positions and ideas.

Sex times technology equals the future.