Stephen Fry Quotes

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

The world is on a bumpy journey to a new destination and the New Normal.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

World events move from the seemingly impossible to the possible.

This is the age of disruption.

A revolution resembles the death of a fading star, an exhilarating Technicolor explosion that gives way not to an ordered new galaxy but to a nebula, a formless cloud of shifting energy.

It's easy to think that craft can't change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention - not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.

Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

You've got to realize the world will never be the same.