take the long view

I unfolded a map of China and located the city of Jingzhou (in 1994, the two districts, Shashi and Jingzhou, were amalgamated into the city of Jingsha, and later renamed the city of Jingzhou), where my high school was located, right in the geographic center of China.

… (a) a substantial increase in revenue, concentrated in one province; (b) this province should be a have province already, and (c) it should have the smallest population of the have provinces.

If you never do another thing you’ll’ve done more than any architect I know.