Quotes About Development

In 2016 I joined with the entrepreneur Yuri Milner to launch Breakthrough Starshot, a long-term research and development programme aimed at making interstellar travel a reality. If we succeed, we will send a probe to Alpha Centauri within the lifetime of people alive today.

the darkness, however, there are quiet changes.

Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel.

The history of life is a story of massive removal followed by differentiation within a few surviving stocks, not the conventional tale of steadily increasing excellence, complexity, and diversity.

But how can a series of reasonable intermediate forms be constructed? Of what value could the first tiny step toward an eye be to its possessor? The dung-mimicking insect is well protected, but can there be any edge in looking only 5 percent like a turd?

Algunas transformaciones son manifiestas y heroicas; otras son tranquilas y sin acontecimientos notables en su devenir, pero no menos importantes en su resultado.

This is a changing world. It changes from day to day, year to year, and from age to age. Rivers deepen their gorges as they carry more land to the sea. Mountains rise, only to be leveled gradually by winds and rain. Continents rise and sink into the sea. Such are the gradual changes of the physical earth as days add into years and years combine to become ages.

A person can't change all at once.

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

No great thing is created suddenly.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become.

Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.

Maybe people really don't change as much as we think. Maybe they just... maybe they just stiffen up.

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

Tell you what, the worst part of growing up is how it shuts you up.

With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

Innocence to experience. Human nature, baby. Grab it and growl.

The world has moved on,' we say... we've always said. But it's moving on faster now. Something has happened to time.

Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?