Quotes About Paradigm

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You may be on the level of thinking outside the box, moving up a level is realizing What Box?.

Understanding the Agricultural Revolution is a first step toward understanding the Information Revolution. The introduction of tilling and harvesting provides a paradigm example of how an apparently simple shift in the character of work can radically alter the organization of society.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

What Copernicus dispelled, however, were not myths but other explanations.

What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.

breakthroughs occur only when one is able to view things in a completely different, new way.

Notice that this reflective paradigm of the statement, the prescription, and the result are the three aspects of each noble truth. The first Noble Truth is 'understanding', the second is 'letting go of the causes', the third is 'realizing cessation', and the fourth is 'cultivating awareness in the ordinariness of life'.

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.

The 'economy of number' proposed by Peano is an economy of signs whose paradigm is algebraic, whose transparency is consensual, and whose operational effectiveness is therefore not in doubt. He thus participates forcefully in that movement of thought, victorious today, that wrests mathematics from its antique philosophical pedestal and represents it to us as a grammar of signs where all that matters is the making explicit of the code.

If all men are brothers outside of any specifically human paradigm then no one can truly be a brother. The institution of a symbolically universal "paternity" annihilates the very possibility of true fraternity, in such a way that it proclaims itself in the absolute by the very thing that destroys it.

How I changed my mind about women in leadership came through the gradual piling up of anomalies against a powerful but unsustainable paradigm.

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way that they have been told to.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Like Einstein, Kade thought. The problems we currently face can't be solved at the level of thinking that created them.

The problems we currently face can't be solved at the level of thinking that created them.

Most important, the intelligence that will emerge will continue to represent the human civilization, which is already a human-machine civilization. In other words, future machines will be human, even if they are not biological. This will be the next step in evolution, the next high-level paradigm shift, the next level of indirection.

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?