History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
For me, change doesn't happen on a linear basis; it zig-zags back and forth.
...A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided.
Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.
Everyone we interact with is changed forever. The only questions are: How will they be different (and how different will they be), and how will we be different (and how different will we be) as a result?
Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed
Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.
The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts.
That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.
I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.
Social revolutions are never simple.
Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.
History is the gradual instant
