Convergence Quotes

• Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Islands, Political, Borders

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• I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.

  Jean-Marie Messier

  Ideas, Believer

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• Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home

  Steve Case

  Home, Should Have, Should

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• The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.

  Marc Benioff

  Powerful, Technology, Opportunity

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• The universe is a single atom: the convergence of science and spirituality.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Atoms, Science Religion

  Dalai Lama XIV (2009). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.86, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.

  Vanna Bonta

  Fashion, Style, Function

  "Vanna Bonta Presents Smart Fashion At NASA Ames Yuri's Night". Vanna Bonta's remarks at NASA Ames Research presentation (April 12, 2008), ireport.cnn.com. April 19, 2008.

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• It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Lying, Answers

  "Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Don’t dismiss the synchronicity of what is happening right now finding its way to your life at just this moment. There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent, and Experience.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Way

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 27, 2017

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• Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Isolation, Blind, Alleys

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• There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent, and Experience.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Coincidence, Universe

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 08, 2012

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• The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.

  Thomas Piketty

  Levels, Wells, Diffusion

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.71, Harvard University Press

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• Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Moving, Ideas, Important

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• ...And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.

  Neal Shusterman

  Fall, Doubt, Shadow

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.467, Simon and Schuster

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• A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

  Italo Calvino

  People, And Love, Casual

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985”, p.454, Princeton University Press

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• It is important to note that everything in the business is converging with technology. The more you can understand how that convergence is happening, and the more you can steward that change into your organization, then the more you'll be sought after as that strategic partner.

  Stephen Gillett

  Technology, Organization, Important

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• Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

  Stephen G. Post

  People, Important, Unselfish Love

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• I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the "Gamepocalypse": the moment when every moment of life is actually a game.

  Jesse Schell

  Reality, Games, Life Is

  "Why games will take over our lives". Interview with John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2010.

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• Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

  Steve Crocker

  Technology, Data, Voice

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• We will continue to see a convergence of the digital and physical world. Those who conquer that trend will be market leaders.

  John Phillips

  Market Leaders, World, Trends

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• The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Birth Place, Doe, Cinema

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• The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject to the constraints of the physical and chemical factors that severely limit the action of all inhabitants of the biosphere. Put simply, convergence shows that in a real world not all things are possible.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Real, World, Limits

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a flickering sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature - fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.

  Donna Tartt

  Thinking, Land, Forever

  "The Goldfinch". Book by Donna Tartt, 2013.

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• In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different scholarly disciplines. The convergence in the results of these independent studies—which was neither planned nor sought—constitutes in itself a significant argument in favor of the theory.

  Pope John Paul I

  Independent, Discovery, Discipline

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• What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.

  Adrienne Rich

  Voice, Together, Different

  Source: criticalflame.org

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• The Mac defined personal technology, and the iPhone defines intimate technology as a convergence of communications, content and location.

  John Sculley

  Communication, Technology, Iphone

  Interview with Chris Brennan, medium.com. April 15, 2015.

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