Quotes About Adaptation

It's gonna be a buggin' long time before the world can ever get back to normal. Even if it can—we'll never see it.

The Changing.

After the initial shock, nothing was strange anymore. Anything could become normal.

Name's Newt, Greenie, and we'd all be right cheery if ya'd forgive our klunk-for-brains new leader, here.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

The idea I am trying to launch here is: the appearance of new species naturally and the appearance of new inventions by artifice are both responses to need.

Camels, unlike most animals, regulate their body temperatures at two different but stable states. During daytime in the desert, when it is unbearably hot, camels regulate close to 40°C, a close enough match to the air temperature to avoid having to cool by sweating precious water. At night the desert is cold, and even cold enough for frost; the camel would seriously lose heat if it tried to stay at 40°C, so it moves its regulation to a more suitable 34°C, which is warm

we live on a live planet that can respond to the changes we make, either by cancelling the changes or by cancelling us.

it helpful to think that what evolves are the niches, and organisms negotiate for their occupancy.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

The relevance of the church is not found in its capitulation to culture but in its transformation of culture.

Peel finally decided to interrupt the endless stream of complaints and grievances and call Babbage to order with a hard fact: 'Mr Babbage, by your own admission you have rendered the Difference Engine useless by inventing a better machine.' Babbage took the bait and glared at Peel. 'But if I finish the Difference Engine it will do even more than I promised. It is true that it has been superseded by better machinery, but it is very far from being "useless.

Bowie himself said, "Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity."2 After reviewing his troubled early years, British psychologist Oliver James wrote, "What seems to have been the trigger for his shift from distressed and tortured to emotionally healthy, was his adoption of personas in his musical career."3

The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.

Pasaulyje, kuris tampa vis labiau kapitalistinis, vienintelis b?das garantuoti kokios nors kult?rin?s praktikos ar gamtovaizdžio išlikim? - surasti j? komercinio panaudojimo b?d?.

Intelligence normally entails two interrelated but somewhat different components. The first involves effective adaptation to an environment.

The Meadow... Only one of them succeeded in making a life here... He weathered. Before a backdrop of natural beauty, he lived a life from which everything was taken but a place. He lived so close to the real world it almost let him in.

You can't step into the same River even once, And why would you want to? You can't

If our bodies were different, though, our metaphors would be different, as Olaf Stapledon showed in Star Maker. Crabs walk sideways, for instance. If crabs could talk, they would undoubtedly describe progress in difficult negotiations as sidling toward agreement and express the hope for a better future by saying their best days are still beside them. Our bodies prime our metaphors, and our metaphors prime how we think and act.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.

I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact.