Quotes About Paradigm

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

We now think of internal representation as great big vectors, and we do not think of logic as the paradigm for how to get things to work. We just think you can have these great big neural nets that learn, and so, instead of programming, you are just going to get them to learn everything.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

This time is different" is the motto of uniqueness bias.

Some know full well what Bernard Shaw had in mind when he wrote that "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Rather

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?

I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.

All great truths began as blasphemies.

Most growth modalities—from nineteenth-century psychoanalysis to twentieth-century Scientology, and just about everything in between—share a common paradigm. It goes something like this: we store influences from the past in the subconscious, those influences inappropriately affect our behavior and perception in the present, and our job is to somehow remove those distorting influences.

Our technologies have got ahead of our theories. Our theories are still fundamentally reductionist, componential and linear. Our technologies, however, are increasingly complex, emergent and non-linear.

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.

If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect.

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

L'humanité a connu trois vexations. La première c'est Nicolas Copernic qui a déduit de ses observations du ciel que la Terre n'était pas au centre de l'univers. La deuxième c'est Charles Darwin qui a conclu que l'homme descendait d'un primate et était donc un animal comme les autres. La troisième c'est Sigmund Freud qui a signalé que la motivation réelle de la plupart de nos actes politiques ou artistiques était la sexualité.

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.

What I am humble and proud about is that I was able to show a path, simply to demonstrate what could be possible with 8,000-meter peaks. Now that the paradigm has shifted, more people can relate to that possibility, and it should be easier next time to conceptualize and achieve it.

Discovering a New Intelligence You never change things by fighting the existing reality. —To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. —BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Many people, including myself, had our scientific lives changed by the inspiring new vision of science that Popper gave us.

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.