Quotes About Adaptation

The essence of hacking is finding unintended or overlooked uses for the laws and properties of a given situation and then applying them in new and inventive ways to solve a problem — whatever it may be.

The past has to be viewed as a springboard to the future.

Nevers aren't forever!

Remember, life gives us warnings for a reason. Learn from this. Do things differently.

We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

When technology changes, tasks usually change, but goals remain constant," so

Design is about humanizing technology or finding ways for technology to integrate into the fabric of our culture.

Product development process transitions

Sometimes you had to accept the impossible, because nothing else made any sense.

Ibsen: "Education is the capacity to confront the situations posed by life.

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

The story of America is...one of slow, often unsteady steps forward. If we expect the trumpets of a given era to sound unwavering notes, we will be disappointed, for the past tells us that politics is an uneven symphony.

One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

Resisting change does not change the truth that change is constantly happening.

Evolution is necessary for ones progress…. resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey.

Eons ago, Homo sapiens were just as alert and aware as all other creatures, and for the same reason. They needed to be. Now we don't need to be - or do we, but just don't understand this anymore? Our sensory equipment and brains are still designed for this awareness. These instincts are still in each of us, just buried, maybe deeply buried. Connecting with bird language begins the process of unearthing them.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

It's not actually the startups that are disrupting your organization, it's your customers' expectations

In exchange for the male being the ultimate couch potato, the female never has to wonder where her mate is on a Saturday evening. It turns out that some males do indeed amount to little more than an appendage.

No use of getting upset over the way things are..

Self-fashioning is the work we are all given, and we dutifully comply with the prescription continually to reinvent ourselves and manage our intricate identities. As Zygmunt Bauman has intimated, we may not grasp that to decline this endless work is not an option.

As disciplinary norms lost their effectiveness, television was crafted into a machinery of regulation, introducing previously unknown effects of subjection and supervision. This is why television is a crucial and adaptable part of a relatively long transition (or changing of the guard) lasting several decades, between a world of older disciplinary institutions and one of 24.7 control.