Context Change Quotes

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.

What works at scale may be different from scaling what works. Pilots often succeed, while scale-up often fails when the context changes.

It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.

Times change. Context changes. Just because something is old and a 'part of our history' shouldn't mean we are forced to honor it forever.

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

The big problem in the world is when people are forced to be in a totally foreign context.

a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At the very least, it must be turned in one direction - only one direction at a time ... Who chooses what direction to point the camera, and why?

I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.

With the hyperlinks, '253' says, 'Look at all the links we have we don't know about.' Without the links, the message becomes, 'Look at God's infinite variety.'