"Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man
could do. Think of the Queen Mary—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.
--Buckminster Fuller--
The sentence is engraved on his headstone.
Everything I Know
1-1/2 Hours
--Buckminster Fuller--
The sentence is engraved on his headstone.
Everything I Know
1-1/2 Hours
Like going back in time to listen to a brilliant old guy take his time with a captive audience to share a well lived life full of detail and insight.
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