Quotes About Change

One cannot be free, never, not ever, in an unfree world, and in the course of redefining family, church, power relations, all the institutions which inhabit and order our lives, there is no way to hold onto privilege and comfort. To attempt to do so is destructive, criminal, and intolerable.

I'm not using you. I'm losing me.

change requires destruction, whether or not you value the destroyed.

The power of natural selection is beyond dispute, but this power has limits. Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. And calling the change that creates them random is just another way of admitting our ignorance about it.

she studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything

I must change my life. Stop and start afresh.

Gianni (Antonioni's friend) was telling us horrifying things today about England, which he found hardly recognizable after an interval of two years. Spiritual degeneration. Money and make-believe replacing the life of the spirit.

The ideal has collapsed. It's not possible to live without an ideal, no one is able to invent a new one, and the old one has collapsed: the church.

the racetrack results go through phases when certain methods succeed and certain methods fail.

But of course, all of this is just a silly fad, and when you add an e to fad, you get fade. And I predict this fad will fade.

Rather than construction, software is more like gardening—it is more organic than concrete. You plant many things in a garden according to an initial plan and conditions. Some thrive, others are destined to end up as compost.

Often this is an orthogonality issue. When teams are organized with lots of overlap, members are confused about responsibilities. Every change needs a meeting of the entire team, because any one of them might be affected.

All software becomes legacy as soon as it's written.

nonorthogonal systems are inherently more complex to change and control. When components of any system are highly interdependent, there is no such thing as a local fix.

expiring assets.[3] Your knowledge becomes out of date as new techniques, languages, and environments are developed.

Well, software doesn't quite work that way. Rather than construction, software is more like gardening—it is more organic than concrete. You plant many things in a garden according to an initial plan and conditions. Some thrive, others are destined to end up as compost.

we work daily within our teams to advocate our ideas, modify existing practices, and suggest new ones.

knowledge isn't stable. It changes—often rapidly.

as the Age of Bush gave way to the Era of Obama, little of substance changed. That was the greatest irony of all.

The thing to remember is that the skull is fixed in position, and, with the exception of the jaw, immovable, and that the flesh is mobile and ever-changing, and also affected by health, emotion, and age. After the skull is fully matured, it remains the same through life and is a structural foundation for the varying appearance of the flesh.

Every "disaster" in your life is not so much a disaster, as a situation waiting for you to change your mind about it.

The only constant we have is change.

YOU CAN'T FIX LIFE BY WORKING ON THE OUTSIDE.

Peter utterly changed—the self-pleasing, the self-trusting, the self-seeking Peter, full of sin, continually getting into trouble, foolish and impetuous, now filled with the Spirit and the life of Jesus. Christ had done it for him by the Holy Spirit.