Quotes About Impact

Enormous gain includes enormous loss.

Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.

If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.

One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.

There are very few people in our society who are actually free to say what they believe. I am in an extremely fortunate position in having this enormous gift of freedom and believe I should try to use it to do something useful for society. As long as I feel as if I have something to say, I'll continue to try to do that.

Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?"

I spend a good deal of time wondering how we will seem to the people who come after us. This is not an idle interest, but a deliberate attempt to strengthen the power of that "other eye," which we can use to judge ourselves.

They're events you remember all your life, like your first real orgasm. And the whole purpose of the absurd, mechanically persistent involvement with recorded music is the pursuit of that priceless moment. So it's not exactly that records might unhinge the mind, but rather that if anything is going to drive you up the wall it might as well be a record.

That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn't be unread.

You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

What is written with a sword cannot be erased.

In a way fighting like this was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

The year I graduated from college was the year Richard Linklater released Slacker and Douglas Coupland published Generation X . A quarter-century later it's hard to recover a sense of how radical and powerful those works were at the time, but to me they felt authentically contemporary in a way that nothing else did.

Highlight: In a way fighting like this was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn't be unread. But

Without those hairless chinny apes, there might not be any invasive species at all.

Tothom vol canviar el món, però ningú pensa a canviar-se ell mateix

For me personally, though, the killer was published in Rolling Stone: "Levon Helm is the only drummer that can make you cry.

Computers are Janus-faced, helping to create jobs even as they destroy jobs.

Firms adopt computers to gain a particular competitive advantage. Realizing computers' potential requires reorganizing work. As computers proliferate in the workplace, the jobs they create, destroy, and change are the byproduct of this work reorganization.

Love will save every life it comes in contact with.

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

Knowing more about the rainforests is not just entertaining or educational, but is also an essential part of understanding how our planet works and why the destruction of these precious environments impacts us all.

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.