Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

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

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

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

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

In chaos there is opportunity

Look for me in the whirlwind.

Revolutions are not easy.

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 very difficult to innovate without requiring people to do something different. And whenever you require people to do something different, you're talking about change.

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.

I think people don't really like change.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

Change always seems impossible until it's inevitable.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change