Quotes About Adaptation

Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

For the first two years I was married, I thought the only flavor was charcoal.

September tries its best to have us forget summer.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Every major feature of the modern United States—from racial equality to Social Security, from the Pentagon to the suburb—represents a repudiation of Jeffersonianism.

Independence was enriching, but most often it meant loss, isolation, and cultural deprivation

we don't live in Plato's Commonwealth, and when we can't have perfection we ought to comply with the measure that is least remote from it.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

A light winter means a hard summer.

Procrustes bed is a phrase meaning any difficult situation which cannot be changed but to which man must adapt himself.

Procrustes bed is a phrase meaning any difficult situation which cannot be changed but to which man must adapt himself. It comes from the uncomfortable hospitality offered by the innkeeper Procrustes, who bolted guests to the bed. If they were too short, he stretched them; if too long, he

Americans are rather like bad Bulgarian wine; the don't travel well.

If you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Humans don't excel at performing repetitive manual work.

Be attentive, be intelligent, be responsible, be loving, and if necessary, change.

Although she felt bad about being placed in a program limited to retarded students, the program was more suited to her social skills and sheltered her from the uncaring acts of unkind high school kids.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

The fuckin' cavemen had it right. They knew. An afternoon's work killing a dinosaur and live off it for a couple of weeks.

En recopiant à l'échelle macrocosmique ce qui se passe dans notre corps à l'échelle microcosmique, nous prendrions exemple sur un système d'organisation qui a fait ses preuves depuis longtemps.