"If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver.
"But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top.
"I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem."
?Buckminster Fuller/ Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth |