If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
The most effective way to manage change is to create it.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.
The big thing about distributed source control is that it makes one of the main issues with SCM's go away - the politics around "who can make changes." BitKeeper showed that you can avoid that by just giving everybody their own source repository.
