“Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.” PeopleWayHas BeensMadePastWishRevolutionCrisisDemocraticPainfulLeapFarmingIndustrial RevolutionRecoil Book:The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy Source: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy
“Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.” WorldRealizingCommunicationRevolutionBordersLeap Author:Roméo Dallaire
“The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.” MenWorldHas BeensRealWorryRevolutionGoes OnHumorousCorporationsLazyOver ItLeapOld ManOxfordSuccessorsJolly Author:C. S. Lewis
“Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.” TwoStatesWaterRevolutionStressTransformationWorkersRateFollowingHeatLeapTransitionSteadyStableRapidsAccumulationPoint BreakSlow And Steady Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“It is Chairman Mao who should be held primarily responsible for the Great Leap Forward. But it didn't take him long - just a few months - to recognize his mistake, and he did so before the rest of us and proposed corrections. And in 1962, when because of some other factors those corrections had not been fully carried out, he made a self-criticism. But the lessons were not fully drawn, and as a result the "Cultural Revolution" erupted.” ShouldLongMadeSelfResultsMistakeRevolutionMonthsLessonsCriticismResponsibleFactorsLeapChairmanCorrectionsMaoSelf CriticismChairman Mao Author:Deng Xiaoping