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A prepared mind is always made up; it knows what it thinks and why it thinks that. When it's time to change, it just makes itself up a different way. A really made-up mind--made up properly, knowing what it knows and on what basis it knows it--is open. People close an undecided mind because they're trying to protect those sore uncertainties from getting bumped and scraped.


John Barnese


#open-minds #opinions #thought #change

Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also as components that can change... Now, though, we live in a world where text is fluid, where is responds to our instructions. Writing something down records it, but does not make it true or permanent. So why should we put up with a system we don't like simply because it's been written somewhere?


Nick Harkaway


#culture #power #society #systems #text

Increasingly, we will be faced with a choice: whether to keep the oceans for wild fish or farmed fish. Farming domesticated species in close proximity with wild fish will mean that domesticated fish always win. Nobody in the world of policy appears to be asking what is best for society, wild fish or farmed fish. And what sort of farmed fish, anyway? Were this question to be asked, and answered honestly, we might find that our interests lay in prioritizing wild fish and making their ecosystems more productive by leaving them alone enough of the time.


Charles Clover


#ecosystem #farmed-fish #fish #ocean #wild-fish

It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.


Roby James


#complex #systems #change

Going to school is a lot like watching TV. Click! Channel 2: first period. Click! Channel 4: second period, And so on, channel surfing through the day. Watching, glassy-eyed. The usual commercials blast at me: Go to school, Do your work, Follow the rules. Like most commercials, they're bullshit. It's quite possible, you know, To go through the school day Without saying a word to any teacher. No interactive TV here. Subjects, like shows, change all the time. Teachers, like fading soap stars, try to hang on. Some of them are permanently cancelled.


Mel Glenn


#change

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.


Patti Davis


#america #country #father #feeling #gradually

If we wish for our country to have an exponentially brighter future, one of the things we need to change is the popular perception some kids have towards school. School is not a prison, it is not a night club, it is not a fight club; school is for learning, learning is the thing that begins the process of separating us from the animals.


Joshua Neik


#education-system #intelligence #knowledge #wisdom #change

When a lack of white blood cells exposes the horizon of being, one has to make a choice. To cloister yourself away in a germ-free environment, alive but alone, or to embrace the woman you love and catch your death of cold at the marriage ceremony? What a great show. It’s inner-directed script was unmatched by any other soap opera.


Benson Bruno


#existentialism #immune-system #soap-operas #death

The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.


Felix Alba-Juez


#philosophy #science #communication

America has designated football as the international sport, but the rest of the world continues to apply the metric system inconsistently.


Bauvard


#funny #humor #metric-system #sports #design






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