R. Buckminster FullerYou never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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When Einstein was just a boy, he said that you can't change things by fighting the existing reality. You can change things, he said, by making something new, by building a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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