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“Before capitalist relations could come to dominate industrial production, a set of related changes was required to guarantee the new order. The state had to be transformed from a tributary structure to a structure of support for capitalist enterprise.”
Eric Wolf (1923–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is not the truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn’t lie to you. It learned more.”
Brené Brown (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be. (p227)”
Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mr. Babbage's illustration powerfully suggests that this ordinary procedure may be subordinate to a higher law which only permits it for a time, and in proper season interrupts and changes it.”
Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Modern technology could advance to the point at which social engineers would be true masters of a complete conformist society which could no longer distinguished from a mass concentration camp. We might ultimately be directed by a superstructure of intelligent machines... Revolutionary changes in the next 30 years would be farther-reaching that many over the past 3.000 years.”
Fred Polak (1907–1985) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote about the future challenges that industrial society faced due to the societal catastrophe, which was considered to be 20 to 50 years away. Cited in: Ian Murray (1972) "Workers told of peril of technology". In: The…
“Unexpected changes, on the contrary, lead to windfall gains or losses for those who are in the right or wrong places at a given time.”
George Stigler (1911–1991) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4th ed. (1987), Chap. 2 : Prices and the Enterprise Economy
“You can’t write without a lot of pressure. Sometimes the pressure comes from anger, which then changes into a pressure to write...The pressure from anger is an energy that can be violent or useful or useless. Also the pressure doesn’t have to be anger. It could be love. One could be overcome with feelings of lifetime love or justice.”
Grace Paley (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[A]s one sinks deeper into materiality, instability grows and changes take place more rapidly; thus the reign of the bourgeoisie will be relatively short-lived in comparison with the regime that preceded it. Furthermore, as usurpation calls forth usurpation, it is now the Shūdras who follow the Vaishyas in aspiring for domination, such being precisely the significance of bolshevism.”
René Guénon (1886–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences. We kill or elate with words because, as co-ordinations of actions, they take place through body interactions that trigger in us body changes in the domain of physiology.”
Humberto Maturana (1928–2021) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 48 as cited in: Vincent Kenny (1989).
“activists who think they are making changes in their countries are not. the people on the ground are the ones who make that #Syria”
Bassel Khartabil (1981–2015) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tweet Jan 31, 2012, 6:29AM at Twitter.com
“People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time - but even on the best day nobody's perfect.”
Colum McCann (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.”
Colum McCann (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Her anguish over the changes that had befallen her was considerable, although at first she had welcomed them as an expression of her grief. Then she had begun to wonder anxiously if she might not need her health to get through the remainder of her life.”
Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The aim of the process chart is to present information regarding existing and proposed processes in such simple form that such information can become available to and usable by the greatest possible number of people in an organization before any changes whatever are actually made, so that the special knowledge and suggestions of those in positions of minor importance can be fully utilized.”
Frank Bunker Gilbreth (1868–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you have millions of dollars it changes your lifestyle, and anyone who says differently is talking bullshit. I don’t need to work, from a standard of living point of view, but I do, you know. I work every day and on weekends and I haven’t taken a vacation for years.”
“Microeconomics and macroeconomics are closely intertwined. Because changes in the overall economy arise from the decisions of millions of individuals, it is impossible to understand macroeconomic developments without considering the associated microeconomic decisions.”
Greg Mankiw (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each time I think I've made a connection with someone... once they find out what I can do, whether it's hours or days later, everything changes. Invariably they freak. They get retroactively paranoid, wondering what else Clark Kent is hiding from them.”
“Maintaining the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and maintaining no changes to the position that Taiwan is part of China is a sacred mission for all the sons and daughters of China.”
Yu Zhengsheng (born 1945) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yu Zhengsheng (2015) cited in "Keeping Taiwan a ‘sacred mission’ of China: official" on Taipei Times, 24 October 2015.
“...having children changes your life like nothing else. It'll be the hardest and best thing you've ever done.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The lives of most men and women are blighted by problems they cannot solve. Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, “I’m in charge,” in truth most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.”
Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yet at every turn, vested interests (those who have the most to gain in keeping things the way they are) oppose even technological changes... And so it goes.”
Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The analysis model will not be a reflection of what the problem domain looks like... The reason is simply to get a more maintainable structure where changes will be local and thus manageable. We thus do not model reality as it is, as object orientation is often said to do, but we model the reality as we want to see it and to highlight what is important in our application.”
Ivar Jacobson (born 1939) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 185: cited in: "Object Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach Ivar Jacobson, et al. (1992)", Book review by Ted Felix on tedfelix.com, 2006.
“Responsibility-driven design specifies object behavior before object structure and other implementation considerations are determined. We have found that it minimizes the rework required for major design changes.”
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Persians, Chinese and Japanese could be cited as examples of ethnic continuity, since, despite massive cultural changes over the centuries, certain key identifying components—name, language, customs, religious community and territorial association—were broadly maintained and reproduced for millennia.”
Anthony D. Smith (1939–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The New Deal is a phase of the transition process from capitalism to managerial society. The New Deal is not Stalinism and not Nazism. But no candid observer, friend or enemy of the New Deal, can deny that in terms of economic, social, political, ideological changes from traditional capitalism, the New Deal moves in the same direction as Stalinism and Nazism.”
James Burnham (1905–1987) first seen 1949 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 203, as cited in: Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 13
“In traditional economic writings dealing with the economy as a whole, it is usually assumed that prices are highly flexible and that economic adjustment is brought about through price changes. We are going to examine inflexible prices.”
Gardiner C. Means (1896–1988) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gardiner C. Means, "Price inflexibility and the requirements of a stabilizing monetary policy." Journal of the American Statistical Association 30.190 (1935): 401-413.
“Then I realised that it really is a philosophy that we're talking about, you know—the nonaggression axiom, that the government should be bound by the same moral laws that the rest of us are. Once you realise that, you're like, "Oh!" Your entire world opens up, and then your entire paradigm changes.”
Glenn Jacobs (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Indeed, given the demographic changes affecting the Australian workforce over the next few decades, the Army will simply not be able to meet its recruiting targets or maintain its range of skills unless we become fully representative of the community from which we draw.”
David Morrison (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no death! Death only exists for those who cannot accept evolution. Everything changes. Death is a transition from movement to movement. Death is static. Death is movement. Death is static. Death is movement.”
Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: reprinted in 'Zero', ed. Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, Cambridge, Mass; MIT Press 1973, p. 119
“Decisions and plans made by others... [can be judged to be] quantitatively at least as important as the primary uncertainty arising from random acts of nature and unpredictable changes in consumers' preferences.”
Tjalling Koopmans (1910–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 163; as cited in: Richard Langlois (1989) Economics as a Process. p. 181
“The central theme of this paper is the character and causes of long-term changes in the personal distribution of income. Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth? What factors determine the secular level and trends of income inequalities?”
Simon Kuznets (1901–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[The principal characteristic of this economic epoch is] a sustained increase in per capita or per worker product, most often accompanied by an increase in population and usually sweeping structural changes.”
Simon Kuznets (1901–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 1, as cited in: Amitava Krishna Dutt, Jaime Ros (2008) International Handbook of Development Economics. p. 48; Definition of "modern economic growth
“So long as we confine our attention to income from property, and leave out of account any increment or decrement in the value of prospects due to changes in people's own earning power (accumulation or decumulation of “Human Capital”), Income No. 1 ex post is not a subjective affair, like other kinds of income; it is almost completely objective.”
John Hicks (1904–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For these anticipations determine the behaviour of the economic subjects and consequently those changes in the whole price system which during a period actually occur as a result of the actions of individuals.”
Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dynamic of the group changes totally if the U.S. can hold on here. Gyan with a lovely ball, though. André Ayew, equalizes! It's a superb goal, to break American hearts! The resistance is broken!”
Ian Darke (born 1950) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ghana v. United States (16 June 2014)
“The painting never changes once I've started to paint it. I work things out before-hand in the sketches.”
Frank Stella (1936–2024) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in Caroline. A. Jones Machine in the Studio, University of Chicago Press (1996), pp. 197-198
“It fell to my lot to orient our foreign policy during the period of bewilderingly rapid changes wherein one kind of world was ushered out and another kind was ushered in.”
I. K. Gujral (1919–2012) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: C. Raja Mohan An enduring diplomat, The Hindu, 9 February 2003
“Concomitance simply means, at last, that both series of changes are connected with some cause, distinct from either, which is the secret of both.”
George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Little House books are stories of long ago. The way we live and your schools are much different now, so many changes have made living and learning easier. But the real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to children (February 1947)
“It is worthy of notice that in Table VI the brighter variables have the longer periods. It is also noticeable that those having the longest periods appear to be as regular in their variations as those which pass through their changes in a day or two.”
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921) first seen 1777 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1777 Variables in the Magellanic Clouds" (1908) Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College Vol.60. No.4
“It is hoped that systematic study of the light changes of all the variables, nearly two thousand in number, in the two Magellanic Clouds may soon be undertaken at this Observatory.”
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Space-time in an expanding universe changes over time, so the full quantum description of a neutrino. in that type of universe is different in the past and the future. Neutrinos would behave in both expanding and unchanging "steady state" universes.”
Jayant Narlikar (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You need to study history, Doctor. All great changes are based on pain and destruction.”
John Twelve Hawks (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Chemistry is the science of matter and the changes it can undergo. The world of chemistry therefore embraces everything material around us—the stones we stand on, the food we eat, the flesh we are made of, and the silicon we build into computers. There is nothing material beyond the reach of chemistry, be it living or dead, vegetable or mineral, on Earth or in a distant star.”
Peter Atkins (born 1940) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peter Atkins and Loretta Jones, Chemical Principles: The Quest for Insight, 4th ed. (2008)
“I fought against these changes. On the eve of the Senate vote in 2018, I warned, “Washington is about to make it easier for the banks to run up risk, make it easier to put our constituents at risk, make it easier to put American families in danger, just so the C.E.O.s of these banks can get a new corporate jet and add another floor to their new corporate headquarters.”
Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then I remembered the phrase 'do not forsake your original intentions' — which was why I decided 17 years ago to run as a legislator and make changes to our society to make the lives of the next generation better and give Taiwan's future more hope.”
Eric Chu (born 1961) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eric Chu (2015) cited in "Chu meets AIT's Kin; mum on US trip" on The China Post, 21 October 2015.
“Those who recognize the inevitability of changes stand to benefit the most.”
“Yet the only empirical data we have about how people conduct war and behave under its stresses is our experience with it in the past, however much we have to make adjustments for subsequent changes in conditions.”
Bernard Brodie (military strategist) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1976
“Each one of our thoughts changes the world in a tiny but subtle way. Multiply this by... the billions in the world, and human thought has an enormous impact.”
F. David Peat (1938–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many endocrine diseases of the body entail the production of 'crooked molecules'—molecules that are made in the wrong way by the cell. It is fairly common for a cancer cell to begin the production of a 'crooked' hormone that evokes dramatic changes in other body functions.”
Richard Bergland wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source