“… I saw, as the tail-end event of one of my own private catastrophes, that the seemingly adverse events of history could always be, and sometimes have been turned to fundamental advantage—even by physically miniscule individual man, despite the formidability of the era of massive governments, corporations and promotional or protectional organizations representing all manner of debilitating biases. In 1927 I deliberately entered the ‘trim-tab lab.’”
-Excerpted from “New Forms vs. Reforms,” from the World Design Science Decade documents, by Buckminster Fuller, Vol. 1: 53, 1963