Quotes About Adoption

Adopting a child is a blessing. Those who perceive themselves as doing someone a favor are not ready to adopt. Pity is such an insult. When making a lifetime commitment to someone, it's no time to let guilt or excessive altruism take over.

The assumption – and I think it's correct – is that the technology is going to happen anyway, so the best thing is to get it distributed as quickly as possible and see what people use it for, and keep an eye out for any problems that arise.

Good ideas are often adopted quickly. When all retailers adopt centralized checkout as a "best practice," it's no longer a competitive advantage for anyone.

In this entire book, you might not find a single statement that is so rigorously supported by empirical research as this one: You are doing things because you see your peers do them.

That's why the initial slowness of bargaining may be offset by a critical advantage: It speeds up implementation. The superintendent can make a lightning-fast decision if she makes it autocratically, but if her administrators and teachers hate it, then adoption will come to a standstill.

Best of all, bright spots solve the "Not Invented Here" problem.

Behavior is contagious.

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

Conocimiento de sí mismo, ingenio, amor y heroísmo. No son cuatro técnicas sino cuatro principios que dan forma a una manera de vivir, un modo de proceder. Ningún jesuita triunfó adoptando tres de los principios y prescindiendo del cuarto.

Women over 50 were the first adopters of e-readers, changing the face of book publishing, and they continue to be the number-one group of book buyers.

The child you select is yours for free," he adds, "on a ninety-day trial. At which point, if you so choose, you may send him back.

My birth mother brought me into this world, but it was my adoptive parents who gave me life.

I remember thinking of the passage in The Sword in the Stone where a falconer took a goshawk back onto his own fist, 'reassuming him like a lame man putting on his accustomed wooden leg, after it had been lost'.

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

We had a bunch of models for user adoption of Robinhood Gold. The data team had some silly names for a range of adoption levels: 'Mediocre expectations,' 'middle-of-the-road expectations' and 'great expectations.' The numbers we ended up with were significantly higher than 'great expectations.'

We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and institutions - these are our customers. Too often we see bitcoin and blockchain technologies as solutions in search of a problem. We don't just need these systems to be technically better than the alternatives - we need them to be more user-friendly.

If you step back and take a holistic look, I think any reasonable person would say Android is innovating at a pretty fast pace and getting it to users.

Giving users easy access to many different kinds of digital assets on the blockchain and, particularly, tokens that are linked to assets in the real world, is crucial to seeing blockchain adoption reach the next level, and I applaud Digix Global's initiative in being the first of many such projects to successfully launch.