#revolution

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music. ↗

— Nick Cave

#art form #bad #changed #even #exciting

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#been #before #black #black or white #color

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it. ↗

— David Chalmers

#before #bottom #consciousness #few #fundamentally

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#concrete #cyclic #each #entire #form

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#becomes #clear #crises #feared #force

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#advances #china #costs #countries #demographic

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity. ↗

— James Buchan

#awash #been #british #consequences #consular

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness. ↗

— James Buchan

#business #commercial #display #government #helplessness

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#manners #moral #most #opinions #revolution

And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#committed #computers #doing #educate #here