Quotes About Transformation

a prim and proper lady who sat up front who had been, I was later told, President Eisenhower's personal pilot when she was a male

himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance

you are interested in the history of the digital age and the emergence of digital culture, Isaacson's book is a must read." —

Durante la ausencia de Shockley y Brattain, la guerra transformó los Laboratorios Bell, que entraron a formar parte del triángulo integrado por el gobierno, las universidades de investigación y el sector privado.

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

En los primeros treinta años de tu vida, tú defines tus hábitos. Durante los últimos treinta, tus hábitos te definen a ti".

V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but sentimental, inspiring but flawed king—begins

Thus was born the iPod, the device that would begin the transformation of Apple from being a computer maker into being the world's most valuable company.

But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.

The Jew who abandons his faith," he once said, "is in a similar position to a snail that abandons his shell. He is still a snail."68

Future generations will figure out the details.

Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention, writing has transformed human consciousness.

Technologies are not mere exterior aids but also interior transformations of consciousness and never more than when they affect the word.

Indeed, it is worth asking whether this is not a feature that is more often found than not in the greatest books. They do not mainly see to add to our knowledge: they do not disdain shocking us because what they most want to do is change us.

Indeed, it is worth asking whether this is not a feature that is more often found than not in the greatest books. They do not mainly seek to add to our knowledge: they do not disdain shocking us because what they most want to do is change us."

truth from him, is a swan dive through a mirror into a whirlpool.

Reliving his degradation had struck some spark in him and it was glowing now like a blown-on coal.

I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.

Letting her go freed me. The dog of my heart didn't want that freedom but my soul, whatever that is, yearned for it. I was that tiny ant, mindlessly repeating the mantra of life

As Halsey looked over his shoulder from his campaigns across the Pacific, "the old battlefields were already disappearing into the jungle or under neat, new buildings. Where 500 men had lost their lives in a night attack a few months before, eighteen men were now playing baseball. Where a Jap pillbox had crouched, a movie projector stood. Where a hand grenade had wiped out a foxhole, a storekeeper was serving cokes. Only the cemeteries were left."20

Whenever new knowledge of a transforming nature permeates the race, the standard of world culture rises.

You remind me at this moment," said the young lady, resuming her lively and indifferent manner, "of the fairy tale, where the man finds all the money which he had carried to market suddenly changed into pieces of slate. I have cried down and ruined your whole stock of complimentary discourse by one unlucky observation.

There are few more melancholy sensations than those with which we regard scenes of past pleasure when altered and deserted.

an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it's environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone is alive in an earlier day.