Quotes About Change

we live on a live planet that can respond to the changes we make, either by cancelling the changes or by cancelling us.

Metaphor is important because to deal with, understand, and even ameliorite the fix we are now in over global change requires us to know the true nature of the Earth and imagine it as the largest living thing in the solar system, not something inanimate like that disreputable contraption 'spaceship Earth

in England about 60 gigawatts of electricity a year. If our only supply was from wind we might need to cover the whole of England with wind farms. This is the green satanic change I fear. And worse, were we mad enough to do it and rich enough to afford it, we would still be emitting far too much CO2 from the carbon fuel we would burn during the 75 per cent of the time the wind was not set fair for the turbines.

The irony of it all is that we in the developed world are the prime polluters, the most destructive of people on the planet, yet although we have the money and the means to prevent the Earth crossing the deadly threshold that will make global change irreversible, we are hampered by fear.

We know that in the depth of the last glaciation carbon dioxide fell to 180 ppm, rose to 280 ppm after the ice age ended, and has risen now to 380 ppm as a result of our pollution.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.

Where's your sketch pad?" I asked. … "I gave that up," Kay said. "I wasn't very good, so I changed my major." "To what?" "To pre-med, then psychology, then English lit, then history." "I like a woman who knows what she wants." Kay smiled. "So do I, but I don't know any.

Computer engineers of today are likely to find that if they have a two-week holiday they may miss a crucial new development in computing. Similarly, those wishing to keep abreast of mechanical engineering in the late nineteenth century had little choice but to keep working at the coalface where knowledge was being sledge-hammered out of the rock of ignorance.

V življenju se nam neštetokrat zgodijo posebna naklju?ja oziroma so?asnosti - tista hipna sre?anja in dogodki, ki v sebi nosijo potencial, da nam popolnoma spremenijo življenje. Mnogo takih trenutkov zgrešimo, ker se morda preprosto prestrašimo tega, kar bi odkrili o sebi, ?e bi se prepustili tej izkušnji.

The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

Intelligence normally entails two interrelated but somewhat different components. The first involves effective adaptation to an environment.

Each year the snow tries to memorize, blindly, the landscape, as if it were the landscape that was going to melt in spring.

Do you want to come in? Take a deep breath. Everything is about to happen.

You can't step into the same River even once, And why would you want to? You can't

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.

I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.