#paradigm

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#communicate #different #existence #hardly #intrinsic

And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. ↗

— David Jones

#exceptions #go #jail #knowing #law

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#assuming #capitalism #competition #defenders #does

The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new. ↗

— Charles Eisenstein

#crises #economy #education #gift-economy #money

IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them. ↗

— Stafford Beer

#cybernetics #models #paradigms #science #change

History is boring, unless you see it from the right perspective. perspective is important. Corn growing in a field appears orderless, till one turns the corner and sees the rows line up. a pixelized photo is unrecognizable, till one zooms out. All the the numbers are on a combination lock but it will not open till they are in the right sequence. So it is with history - all the names, dates and places are there, but it is not until they are seen from the right perspective that lessons become clear. history is boring, until it comes into focus. ↗

— William J Federer

#history-is-boring #paradigm #perspective #change

So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

#comp #find #hard #horn #i

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#disasters #example #falling #labour #only

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#arch #born #decline #into #living

Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm. ↗

— Thorstein Heins

#elements #future #industry #just #mobile