Quotes About Change

I look around at the beach where I grew up. This is where everything changed for me. I was just a girl who happened to witness the arrival of a strange race of people from under the sea. One of them was the most beautiful person I ever met. He walked out of the ocean and changed my life forever. — Lyric

Hamstead had turned into a pig—an angry, determined pig in a policeman's uniform.

As the amount of code in a project grows, it gradually surpasses understanding. The amount of time it takes to figure out what to change just keeps increasing.

In a well-maintained system, it might take a while to figure out how to make a change, but once you do, the change is usually easy and you feel much more comfortable with the system. In a legacy system, it can take a long time to figure out what to do, and the change is difficult also.

Effective software change, like effective surgery, really involves deeper skills. Working with care doesn't do much for you if you don't use the right tools and techniques. Cover

we can't let "best" be the enemy of "better.

Teams take serious chances when they try to make large changes without tests. It is like doing aerial gymnastics without a net.

Superficially, Edit and Pray seems like "working with care," a very professional thing to do. The "care" that you take is right there at the forefront, and you expend extra care when the changes are very invasive because much more can go wrong. But safety isn't solely a function of care.

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.

It used to be that people had character; now houses have character and people have personality. That

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

I'd spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny.

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

Just because the rose died on the vine, doesn't mean it lied to you when it was in bloom.

Omnia Mutantur...

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

Life will find a way.

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they're not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.

Her father used to say The death of a horse is the life of a crow, and Ada had never really taken in the meaning of the phrase. But she knew it in her bones now.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we'll always have more to give.