“What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time--just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I've learned to do that again.” KidsGrowsBitsWatchesMinutesChangedDadFundamentalsComplexityI've LearnedBugsCrawling Author:Bob Weir
“There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.” PeopleWorldTwoFactsBitsKnowledgePrejudiceAbsolutesFundamentalsDecoration Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings
“At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.” ChoicesBitsInformationFundamentalsBinaryYes Or No Author:James Gleick
“Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies have come about not from the dictates of governments and the results of battles, but through vast numbers of people changing their minds, sometimes only a little bit.” PeopleMindLittlesSometimesGovernmentBitsResultsNumbersBattleLittle BitFundamentalsPeople ChangingChanges In Society Author:Willis Harman
“Life, by which I mean my life, is a great, or probably the greatest, design, from its very beginning to its end, the end that, I think, is unlikely to exist. Each and every bit of life is a part of the design. Design exists as the consequence of the ultimate questioner's vanity. And my mission is to find the most fundamental truth, which probably and exclusively involves the nature of the existence of the ultimate questioner.” ThinkingMeanEndsLife IsBitsExistenceDesignConsequenceUltimateFundamentalsMissionsVanityUnlikely Author:Kedar Joshi
“Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down.” WorldWayMadeUniverseBitsInformationBuildingFundamentalsBlockAtomsElectronsBuilding Blocks Author:Bryan Appleyard
“I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.” ThinkingRealCountryHouseBitsWhiteViewsPartyMillionsIssuesTrumpCostBenefitsMajorsFundamentalsMajorityDemocraticCongressPoint Of ViewInequalityAddressesUnhappinessWhite HouseProgressiveDemocratic PartyObamacare Author:David Brooks
“I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.” PeopleMenWorldWantHeartChildrenLittlesStoriesBitsMy OwnFamilySeeingMy HeartLittle BitOptimismOvercomingFundamentalsInspiredHearingHardshipDecencyBetter Man Author:Barack Obama
“Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent - the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.” MenWayGivingMayPlaySeemsFacesBitsChangeKingsOppositesFundamentalsTyrannyPermanentDelusionCycles Author:H. L. Mencken
“The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.” WritingMeanFormDiesBitsImpossiblePaperAmbitionFundamentalsStructureImmortalityExitUnchanging Author:Jacques Derrida