R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Brenneman, Richard J. Fuller's Earth: A Day with Bucky and the Kids. St. Martin's Press, 1984, p. 17.
The impication is that small changes are just as hard often and might be easier than large changes.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Popular at the end of the 19th century when there were great debates about reform
She was charged with interfering with the Draft during WWI. She wrote and gave speeches against the war and was convicted according to the laws and court interpretations of the time.
This statement is very revealing in that it illustrates the attitude of the establishment of most developing nations. Traditional change is OK as long as it is not does transformational—ie as long as it does not make any meaningful changes. But modernization requires transformational change; without it there is no major reform and all institutions and power structures remain in their positions.
Zhou, more than any other Chinese official, was responsible for the dramatic change in the Chinese economic shift from a classical socialist model to a modern market driven competitive economy.
Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity".
