Quotes About Paradigm

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.

I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.

We're moving from a centralized understanding of the world to a decentralized understanding of the world.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

The traditional divide between left and right, capital and labor, small state and big state, high taxes and low taxes doesn't define politics in the way it did in the past.

As a researcher, every once in a while you encounter something a little disconcerting. And this is something that changes your understanding of the world around you, and teaches you that you're very wrong about something that you really believed firmly in.

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

Before the antichrist can be welcomed with wide-open arms by the world, a change in society's mentality must first take place.

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.

all Nice Guys developed the same paradigm: "If I am good, then I will be loved, get my needs met, and have a problem-free life.

Nice Guys are wimps. This may not sound like a nice thing to say, but it's true. Nice Guys tend to be wimpy victims because their life paradigm and childhood survival mechanisms require them to sacrifice their personal power.

In an attempt to cope with their childhood abandonment experiences, all Nice Guys developed the same paradigm: "If I am good, then I will be loved, get my needs met, and have a problem-free life." Unfortunately, this paradigm not only produces the opposite of what is desired, it guarantees nothing but feelings of perpetual powerlessness.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.

Normal science," Kuhn writes about the limitations of such scientific belief systems, "the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it?

Women wear the breeches… in a word, the world turned upside downward.

Functional programming is discipline imposed upon variable assignment.

Procedural code (code using data structures) makes it easy to add new functions without changing the existing data structures. OO code, on the other hand, makes it easy to add new classes without changing existing functions.

structured programming, object-orient programming, and functional programming.

Even small changes in our Big Assumptions can have big implications for permanently altering our once-captivating equilibrium.

Schools were designed to produce good employees instead of employers

We're living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old forms of thought to deal with new experiences.