Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 13, “Jokers” (p. 280)
“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”
As quoted by Rachel Makabi, 'A Race Against Time' http://www.rezapahlavi.org/details_article.php?article=34&page=5, Newsweek International, Sept 4, 2006.
Interviews, 2006
“Easier to keep changing your life than to live it.”
#55
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Breaking Through Power (2016)
“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
“57: It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.”
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
“Let me tell you, it’s easier to change yourself than everyone else.”
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
"If Obama were Pope" (31 January 2009) http://www.progressiveinvolvement.com/progressive_involvement/2009/01/if-obama-were-pope-by-professor-hans-kung.html
Context: The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress alongside him as a legislative body nor a Supreme Court as a judiciary. He is absolute head of government, legislator and supreme judge in the church. If he wanted to, he could authorize contraception over night, permit the marriage of priests, make possible the ordination of women and allow eucharistic fellowship with this Protestant churches. What would a Pope do who acted in the spirit of Obama?
“It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.”
The Human Condition (1958).
