Buckminster Fuller holding object looking out towards the mountains in north carolina

R Buckminster Fuller

American architect, theorist, inventor and philosopher. Born Milton Massachuset 1895, died Los Angeles 1983.

Buckminster Fuller said,

 ‘Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Elizabeth — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there’s a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trim tab. It’s a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trim tab. Society thinks it’s going right by you, that it’s left you altogether. But if you’re doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go. So I said, “Call me Trim Tab.”

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Image Black Mountain College, North Carolina 1949

 

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