History has shown us that when we wait until we get on the ground to come up with a strategy in real time ... it's too late.

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.

I don't think there was any way it was going to change. There's too much history to this district for the people in Austin to just tear it down.

The idea is that it's not just the military that's going to be delivering the effect anymore. It's bringing in a lot more players. And, as a result, the planning becomes more complex.

It's inadvertent almost always but it really does take time.

Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is ... Western, and completely alien to us [the Chinese]. For centuries, since the time of the Opium Wars, we have struggled to absorb the yong of technology without importing the Western ti. But it has been impossible. Just as our ancestors could not open our ports to the West without accepting the poison of opium, we could not open our lives to Western technology without taking in the Western ideas, which have been as a plague on our society. The result has been centuries of chaos.