Quotes About Transformation

A poem should improve on the blank page.

there's a difference between doing something and being something, but they merge into each other. I mean, you play the piano a bit, and then more and more, and at some point you become a pianist. That's who you are.

It's what the loss uncovers in you that brings on despair, not the loss itself.

Bit by bit, we become people we don't want to be,

Je zult zien, je zult zien, ooit wordt alles anders, morgen nog niet misschien, maar ooit wordt alles anders. Je zult zien, je zult zien, het is nog niet voorbij. Ik weet niet hoe en ik weet niet waar, maar je zult zien, ooit wordt alles anders.

The Lord of the worms comes and goes.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Winter always turns into Spring

It was a new beginning for France.

And as I looked ahead, the people changed into elks and bison and all four-footed beings and even into fowls, all walking in a sacred manner on the good red road together.

When the Net absorbs a medium, it re-creates that medium in its own image. It not only dissolves the medium's physical form; it injects the medium's content with hyperlinks, breaks up the content into searchable chunks, and surrounds the content with the content of all the other media it has absorbed. All these changes in the form of the content also change the way we use, experience, and even understand the content.

I felt lost without the Delete key, the scrollbar, the cut and paste functions, the Undo command. I had to do all my editing on-screen. In using the word processor, I had become something of a word processor myself.

the Web transformed the Internet from an intellectual meeting-house into a commercial enterprise.

it has become almost impossible for us to imagine what life was like before electricity began to flow through the sockets in our walls.

In 1930, it hit 80 percent. Soon, it was over 90 percent. Only a handful of manufacturers, mainly those running big factories in remote locations, continued to produce their own current. Thanks to Samuel Insull, the age of the private power plant was over. The utility had triumphed.

We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us. —John M. Culkin

A hundred years ago, we arrived at such as moment with technologies that extend man's physical powers. We are at another such moment today with technologies that extend our intellectual power

By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.

Well, this may have once been a ham, but now it is nothing but an ex-ham.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

the buildings of the city blossoming and withering like flowers from the swamps of Edo

I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.

I saw a sick man pick up his instrument and be well