Quotes About Change

All the rage – including the wild, destructive misandry, the double-think and the self-delusion – stem from this fact: that we are being not just asked, but expected, to radically alter our lives and societies on the basis of claims that our instincts all tell us cannot possibly be true.

The answer that has presented itself in recent years is to engage in new battles, ever fiercer campaigns and ever more niche demands. To find meaning by waging a constant war against anybody who seems to be on the wrong side of a question which may itself have just been reframed and the answer to which has only just been altered.

while the likelihood of cultural erosion remains irresistible the options for cultural defence continue to be unacceptable.

revolutions. Periscope

The only real answer, the really simple one that neither philanthrocapitalists nor green technologists want to hear, is that we have to reduce our energy consumption altogether.

Once a line could truly be drawn in something other than sand, the notion of history as a progression became possible.

Simply remembering that corporations were invented should alone empower us to reinvent them to our liking.

future that had less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether.

People almost never change without first feeling understood.

Telling someone to change makes it less rather than more likely that they will.

Simply by changing your own behavior, you gain at least some influence over the problem.

change forces us to learn differently.

So what frameworks do we need to make sense of learning in our world of constant change?

What happens to learning when we move from the stable infrastructure of the twentieth century to the fluid infrastructure of the twenty-first century, where technology is constantly creating and responding to change?

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can't identify a decision that could be affected by a proposed measurement and how it could change those decisions, then the measurement simply has no value

When we conduct a penetration test on a system, we are not changing the state of the application with this inspection; rather, we are changing our uncertainty about the state of the application.

It seems that to have a truly profound revelation, you almost always have to look at something other than what you have been looking at in the past. Being able to compute the value of information has caused organizations to look at completely different things—and doing so has frequently resulted in a surprise that changed the direction of a major decision.

You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.

Secular conservatism is like trying to use your pocket handkerchief to slow you down after the main chute has failed. This

The world is a very different place from what it was two thousand years ago, much of it for the better, but we are still taking the lives of inconvenient infants. The work that Jesus came to do, that of throwing down all the idols, is not yet complete.

Of course, marriage in one sense changes who you are in certain ways, but it also simply amplifies what you are. Many people think that when they got married, they turned into selfish people. What actually happened is they plugged the guitar into the amp and turned it up to eleven, and the selfish tune they had been playing the whole time suddenly became audible.

if we do not tell our stories faithfully, they will gradually change over time until they become quite unrecognizable. With a story like this—one that has in the minds of many supplanted the story of the Christ child—we have to remember that St. Nicholas probably would have slugged somebody over it.

Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.