#revolution

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. ↗

— Douglas Engelbart

#digital #even #far #invention #more

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#developing #different #different meaning #entirely #forgotten

Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#becoming #cereal #change #countries #evident

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#his #i #i love #love #novel

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

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#disseminate #going #how #i #information

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#change #change the world #create #demand #enormous

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#change #country #had #isolationism #leadership

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#device #efforts #generating #major #necessary