“ You can not connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So that you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. “
- Steve Jobs
Everything promised in a strategic package eventually turns into a transactional reality. Strategic glamour is an illusion that leaves you cheated, even in a raw barter.
हेनरी किसिॅजरले लेखेकाछन -माओले बेइजिङमा निक्सनसँगको सन १९७२ आफ्नो छोटो भेटवार्ताका क्रममा भनेका थिएः “चीनले ताइवानलाई तुरुन्तै चाहँदैन,किनभने ताइवानीहरू प्रतिक्रान्तिकारी हुन् ..अहिलेका लागि चीन उनीहरूबिनै पनि काम चलाउन सक्छ, र हामीले उनीहरुलाई १०० वर्षपछि लिए पनि फरक पर्दैन।”