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To be truly radical is to make hope possible, not despair convincing.
~ Raymond Williams
You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
~ Damon Runyon
it is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.
~ Dee Hock, CEO Emeritus VISA International
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
~ D. H. Lawrence
A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor. (Find attribution)
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted
to a profoundly sick society.
~ J. Krishnamurti
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world.
~Joel Barker
Innovation makes enemies of all those who prosper under the old regime, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those that would prosper under the new. Their support is indifferent partly from fear and partly because they are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.
~ Machiavelli, The Prince
Technology doesn’t make a community. It is about enhancing the human spirit, using the power of technology to respond to the human need for communication
and expression.
~ Red Burns
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.
~Aurora Levins Morales
The source of all our problems comes from the gap between how we think & how nature works.
~Gregory Bateson
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. Build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
~Bucky Fuller
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
~African Proverb
Would you rather set goals and and achieve everything, or shoot for the stars and fall a little bit short?
~Ben Franklin
Social software is not better for collaboration than in person. It's only better than nothing.
~Clay Shirky
[E]motions work much faster than our intellect. So, when you get people angry quickly, things can spread like wildfire, in a way that they can’t on slower media.
~Clay Shirky
Nature is relationships in space.
Geometry defines relationships in space.
Art creates relationships in space.
- M. Boles and R. Newman
To be truly radical is to make hope possible, not despair convincing.
~ Raymond Williams
You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
~ Damon Runyon
it is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.
~ Dee Hock, CEO Emeritus VISA International
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
~ D. H. Lawrence
A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor. (Find attribution)
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted
to a profoundly sick society.
~ J. Krishnamurti
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world.
~Joel Barker
Innovation makes enemies of all those who prosper under the old regime, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those that would prosper under the new. Their support is indifferent partly from fear and partly because they are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.
~ Machiavelli, The Prince
Technology doesn’t make a community. It is about enhancing the human spirit, using the power of technology to respond to the human need for communication
and expression.
~ Red Burns
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.
~Aurora Levins Morales
The source of all our problems comes from the gap between how we think & how nature works.
~Gregory Bateson
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. Build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
~Bucky Fuller
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
~African Proverb
Would you rather set goals and and achieve everything, or shoot for the stars and fall a little bit short?
~Ben Franklin
Social software is not better for collaboration than in person. It's only better than nothing.
~Clay Shirky
[E]motions work much faster than our intellect. So, when you get people angry quickly, things can spread like wildfire, in a way that they can’t on slower media.
~Clay Shirky
Nature is relationships in space.
Geometry defines relationships in space.
Art creates relationships in space.
- M. Boles and R. Newman