Quotes About Change

Identity changes by the second, you turn into someone else every time a new thought rewires your brain. You're already a different person than you were ten minutes ago.

You said it was colorful. What changed?" "I don't know. Maybe nothing. I just— I don't actually remember the dreams when I wake up any more." "So how do you know you still have them?" Pag asked. Fuck it I thought, and tipped back the last of my pint in a single gulp. "I know." "How?" I frowned, taken aback. I had to think for a few moments before I remembered. "I wake up smiling," I said.

PROBLEMS CANNOT BE SOLVED AT THE SAME LEVEL OF AWARENESS THAT CREATED THEM. –ALBERT EINSTEIN

Maybe the Singularity happened years ago. We just don't want to admit we were left behind.

Half my age, and she's probably already forgotten the difference between the meat she was born with and the chrome that came after.

The moved and the shaken.

By now it's got as much in common with its origins as a humpback whale would have with the sperm cells from a therapsid lizard. Still

Dan, you gotta let go of this whole self thing. Identity changes by the second, you turn into someone else every time a new thought rewires your brain. You're already a different person than you were ten minutes ago.

nouveaux undead

there's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all survival strategy

THE LORD WILL TAKE CONTROL OF YOU. YOU WILL DANCE AND SHOUT AND BECOME A DIFFERENT PERSON. —1 Samuel 10:6

Their marriage decayed with the exponential determinism of a radioactive isotope and still he sought her out, and accepted her conditions.

I glanced around at all that customized abstraction: internal feedback, lucidly dreamed. "You're omnipotent in here. Desire anything, imagine anything; there it is. I'd thought it would have changed you more.

entropy increases'? Everything falls apart eventually.

SPECIES USED TO GO EXTINCT. NOW THEY GO ON HIATUS. —Deborah MacLennan, Tables of our Reconstruction

What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots? But

Semmelweis reflex. They

Technology is a stunted thing in benign environments, it never thrived in any culture gripped by belief in natural harmony. Why invent fusion reactors if your climate is comfortable, if your food is abundant? Why build fortresses if you have no enemies? Why force change upon a world that poses no threat?

En 1972, en el momento culminante de la revolución, Chile era el segundo país más igual de Sudamérica. Tres décadas después, era el segundo país más desigual en la región.

Millones de personas en el mundo quieren el socialismo, pero no desean pasar por la tragedia de una guerra civil para alcanzarlo» me dijo en una entrevista en 1972.

Being awake and aware does not automatically change a situation, but enforcing the systems and strategies that will ameliorate the situation is your key to liberation.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

With this assumption of awareness and responsibility, increased response-ability becomes possible. This means that the more fully I can become aware of who I am and what I am doing at this moment, the more freedom I can experience to change and the more I am able to choose my responses.