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Social Institutions Will Change Only At The Speed Required To Protect Them From Attack-slowly Or Fast To The Degree Required, But Usually Slowly.
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Social institutions will change only at the speed required to protect
them from attack-slowly or fast to the degree required, but usually
slowly. They will put off change as long as possible.
-- Arthur Herzog
Related:
Social groups are generally in disarray. To protect themselves from other group
especially the groups just below them, groups will attempt to convey an appearance of interior order and purpose they do not possess....
Slowly inching up while stopped at a red light makes it change quicker.
How many humans -- does it take to change a light bulb?
Not sure; I only know it takes only one to press the button which obliterates them all....
IV. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken.
Such an object is inevitably priceless, the attempt to capture it inevitably unsuccessful....
Some Assembly Required" means "Engineering Degree Necessary.
You and me we're going nowhere slowly And we gotta get away from the past There's nothing wrong with going nowhere baby But we should be going nowhere fast Everybody's going nowhere slowly They're only fighting for the chance to be last There's nothing wrong with going nowhere baby But we should be going nowhere fast It's so much better going nowhere fast.
.. -- Nowhere Fast, Meat Loaf, _Bad Attitude_...
Change in Earth's rotational speed
CDS: Change Disk Speed
As you hit the water you slowly realize that you are undergoing a most drastic change.
It appears that the water was perhaps a bit more caustic than you initially anticipated....