Quotes About Change

Our society is mature. Change is instability. That is why every institution we have resists change. To maintain the status quo is our sole objective in life.

rationalize that as something else

A large part of evolution is interaction. Isolation is not evolution; it is stagnation.

code could be written to solve the problems. Code could do anything. Code could save the world.

The temperature fell. The rain quickened, thinning the clouds, clearing the sky. Evolution began once more.

Unknowing, the fate of the old had crept up on him, and now he'd become the one who provided strategy and expected others to implement it—the one they all rightly bitched about in the pub after work. When did this happen to me?

The game is changing' .. :The game is the same, the stakes are rising.

The biggest victory they can have is to change our lives. I am going to carry on exactly as before. Anything else is allowing them to win.

It had to be done, they were determined about that; some attempt had to be made to break the cycle of crime and poverty.

but whereas her contemporaries were thickening out, ready for their century of toil on the land, she remained slim and agile.

People will look at you, what you're doing, rewriting the regiment rule book, and they'll want to do the same for themselves. That's when you'll start to run into resistance. That's where the politics begins. And that's the dirtiest fight there is.

Astronomy post 2050 had effectively ceased to be a pure science.

The greenhouse effect never did achieve the worst-case scenarios that the more evangelical environmentalists claimed it would.

Mother Mary, this is not what was meant to be." "Nothing ever is, Doc. I learned that long ago." "Ha! You're too young." "Depends how you fill the years, doesn't it?

Fucking civil servants, always stand in the way of progress.

But the very nature of linear time implies that—from an external observer viewpoint—the history of the entire universe from creation to heat death exists in a static form, allowing us—consciousness—to perceive time moving in only one direction. Ergo, the universe's entirety—both space and time—was created as a complete whole. Which argues that change is not possible.

The Olyix can't always have been miserable fascist bastards," Yuri said. "Something changed them.

Slvasta's revolution destroyed his dictatorship

We exercised our democratic right to protest, and they ignored us.

Nor is she yours, not any more,' Greg replied. 'No longer your little girl. She makes her own choices now.

The oldest human story of all: I never knew what I had until I lost it.

Some things are sharper than they have been for years." "That's good. That means death is approaching.

Before, it never really made any difference which candidate you voted for. Nothing was different afterward.

You are responsible to your political paymasters, and their eternal quest for the status quo.