Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
~ Charles Eames
I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
~ Laura Marano
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
~ Bono
I like the songs that are fun, that aren't gonna change the world - I've some of those - but even something like, 'You Should Be Here,' that was my chance to say, 'Look, this is me, too. I'm just a normal person.'
~ Cole Swindell
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
~ Jr
Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
~ Beau Willimon
The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.
~ Jack Ma
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
~ Gloria Steinem
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
~ Margaret Mead
Things don't have to change the world to be important.
~ Steve Jobs
As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.
~ Henry Petroski
Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
~ John Mcafee
You change the world by being yourself.
~ Yoko Ono
I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world.
~ Steven Curtis Chapman
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
~ William H. Mcraven
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
~ Aaron Sorkin
If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
~ Jimi Hendrix
When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.
~ River Phoenix
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
~ Guy Kawasaki
You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.
~ Kevin Johnson
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
~ Tom Stoppard
I want to inspire people to change the world. That's something that I feel that I'm meant to do here... really going to change the world. I asked God to make me immortal so I can do it.
~ Bryson Tiller
Is there climate change? I live in the shadow of some of the greatest climate change the world has ever seen. It's called the Rocky Mountains. When the glaciers went back.
~ Scott Tipton
It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.
~ Jodi Picoult
Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that.
~ Steve Wozniak
It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.
~ Jacque Fresco
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
~ Martin Scorsese
I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
~ Michael Phelps
The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
~ Todd Gitlin
All I want to do is change the world.
~ W. Clement Stone
