what’s the piano top in your life?

“I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat may come along and make a fortuitous life preserver. This is not to say, though, that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think 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.” :: R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

some days i feel as if i’m drowning is a swimming pool filled with piano tops. too much grasping at what used to work. too many minds unable to flex with new logic or, new mystery. god save us from our own piano tops.

~ by designhead on May 4, 2007.