Fifth Law: All history is relevant, but the history of technology is the most relevant.
Fifth Law: All history is relevant, but the history of technology is the most relevant.
Events in this temporality gain significance only in relation to salvation.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
In short, the consultant studies history because, as the economist Kenneth Boulding says, Things are the way they are because they got that way.
Gerald Weinberg • The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully (Consulting Secrets Book 1)
History isn’t the study of the past; it is the study of change. History teaches us what remains the same, what changes, and how things change.
Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
The great biologist D’Arcy Thompson once said: “Everything is the way it is because it got that way.” If he is right—if everything is the way it is because it got that way—then every science must be, in part, a historical science.