“A lot of people are open to new things, as long as they look like the old ones.”
Raymond Loewy (1893–1986) industrial designer
Raymond Loewy (1951); As cited in: Angèle H. Reinders et al. The Power of Design. p. 93
“Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.”
— Wallace Stegner, book Angle of Repose
Source: Angle of Repose
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Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question "What is best?," a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream. There are eras of human history in which the channels of thought have been too deeply cut and no change was possible, and nothing new ever happened, and "best" was a matter of dogma, but that is not the situation now. Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum. Some channel deepening seems called for.
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 1
Irving Kristol (1920–2009) American columnist, journalist, and writer
Capitalism and Socialism: A Theological Inquiry (American Enterprise Institute Press, 1979).
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Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
As quoted in The Quotable Woman (1978) by Elaine T Partnow, p. 226. "When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place" has sometimes been quoted as her original statement, though she states that she herself is quoting an abbot.
“As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.”
David Nicholls book Starter for Ten
Source: Starter for Ten
“Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.”
Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian
"Age of Reason" https://archive.is/20130630002019/www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/22/071022fa_fact_krystal?currentPage=all by Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker (2007-10-22), p. 103
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
“The old customs are dead, and we keep trying on new ones, like badly fitting clothes.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 50)