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Quotes About Revolution

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
~ Steve Jobs
Shocking Paris,
~ Steve Stern
Dan Franck's Bohemian Paris
~ Steve Stern
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
~ Steve Wozniak
We want to destroy everything, not rebuild on the same rubble. We have different ideas. It is like any work. You have to have a clean slate. Then, you have a programme, a new way of thinking. It is a way of thinking. Not a restoration. Parties out. Citizens instead of parties.
~ Beppe Grillo
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
~ Mick Jagger
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
~ Franz Kafka
One of the things about George III is that he was aware that the monarchy was slipping away. There was revolution in the air all over Europe. Because of the unpopularity of his predecessors, one of the things he wanted to do was to establish some sort of credibility to the monarchy.
~ Nigel Hawthorne
Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.
~ Chuck D
ICT careers are becoming more complex as a result of the digital revolution, where smarter connections are being made between people, processes, data, and things.
~ Tae Yoo
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
~ William S. Burroughs
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Michael Jordan broke the mold of the Magic Johnson/Larry Bird era - he came in and he had a gold chain, he wore longer shorts and his sneakers were a different style.
~ Fabolous
It [Iranian Islamic Revolution] is perhaps the first great insurrection against global systems, the form of revolt that is the most modern and the most insane.
~ Michel Foucault
When the old Ptolemaic model had accumulated so many epicycles that the movement of the stars became complicated and unreadable, a change became necessary. The center of the system was moved toward the sun, and everything became clear again. The written code of Hammurabi no doubt put an end to the socio-juridical difficulties that had arisen in oral law. Our own complexities come from a crisis of writing.
~ Michel Serres
No, I was not going to work. I was an artist, a lover, a lover of women, of the oppressed and downtrodden, a warrior really. I should have been somewhere leading an armed revolution in the name of love and no, I was not going to work.
~ Michelle Tea
If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it.
~ Michio Kaku
If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. – ALBERT EINSTEIN
~ Michio Kaku
Like the invention of the telescope, the introduction of MRI machines and a variety of advanced brain scans
~ Michio Kaku
the liquidation of the intelligentsia
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
They worked in a hurry, for as every decent man who has taken part in a revolution knows very well - no matter who is in power - searches take place from 2.30 a.m. to 6.15 a.m. in winter and from midnight to 4 a.m. in summer.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?
~ Milan Kundera
He saw the marching, shouting crowd as the image of Europe and its history. Europe was the Grand March. The march from revolution to revolution, from struggle to struggle, ever onward.
~ Milan Kundera
Optimismus je opium lidstva!Zdravý duch páchne blbostí. AÃ…Â¥ žije Trockij! Ludvík
~ Milan Kundera