These are some good quotes I’ve seen over the past weeks. You may have seen them come by on twitter.  I decided to do this, so I won’t have to go through my twitter for these quotes. Maybe I will add my thoughts, such as the last two.

“Do you have advice for songwriters like me?”
“Enjoy music: treat her like the incredible gift that she is! …and write honestly. Pain, joy, anger, love, fear- don’t dumb your feelings down; express them in your art. Be Brave.” – Jon Foreman

“At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.” – Søren Kierkegaard

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” -  Harold Wilson

“Too many people are thinking of security… They seem to be more afraid of life than death.” -James F. Bymes

“The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The last two hit me quite hard, since this came up in one of the classes we had about technological security. In the Western world a trend exists that instills fear to the society in response to danger (whether it be terrorism, “foreign danger”, local criminality, etc). Okay.

Let’s change the perspective shall we. More >