As quoted in Open Question Selling: Unlock Your Customer's Needs to Close the Sale (2007) by Val Gee and Jeff Gee, p. 66
Bill Nye (1955) American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer
[NewsBank, Meagan Engle, ‘Science Guy' Nye tells Miami students to ‘change the world', Oxford Press, Ohio, January 31, 2011]
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
A comment he made in persuading John Sculley to become Apple's CEO, as quoted in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple: A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future (1987) by John Sculley and John A. Byrne
1980s
Jamie Zawinski (1968) American programmer
JWZ
http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
Groupware.
“I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — so I will be radiant.”
Patch Adams (1945) Physician, activist, diplomat, author
As quoted in "Patch Adams and clowns spreading laughter at hospital" (2 March 2016)
Context: Any can do it — BE RADIANT! Make the decision. I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — so I will be radiant.
“The thing about changing the world… Once you do it, the world's all different.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the World. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21
Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist
a quote from Tàpies' talk, when his museum opened in 1990; as quoted in 'Antoni Tàpies a Painter With Textures, Dies at 88', by William Grimes, in 'The New York Times', 8 Febr, 2012, p. B17
1981 - 1990
Philippe Kahn (1952) Entrepreneur, camera phone creator
Commencement speech for UCSC students 1996 | UCSC Press Release http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/archive/95-96/06-96/061196-Graduation_ceremoni.html.
