Quotes About Adaptation

You cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I can't see straight. But that's okay.

So time, you see, is not so precise as many believe," Brynna was saying, lighting a candle. "It is not a solid thing, to be carved into days and hours at our bidding. It is fluid, liquid. It can change as easily as the sea changes, on one day calm and smooth, on another stormy and dangerous.

Sometimes something comes along and tears your roots right out the ground, and that's when you know you been planted too long.

I had the sense that cities were yielding, that they moved over and made room.

Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut?

Sometimes people change, said a voice inside him. And sometimes they don't.

You've changed, Fitz.' 'It's been eight years. Everyone changes.' 'I haven't changed.' The insight came to him like a match flaring. 'I can see how you've tried to remain the same. But no, you have changed, too. Once you thrilled to new horizons. Now all you want is to live in a monument to the way things might have been.

I guess what I'm really trying to say is that you used to shatter easily. But now you've become less brittle.

Mobile technology is here to stay, along with all the wonders it brings. Yet it is time for us to consider how it may get in the way of other things we hold dear—and how once we recognize this, we can take action: We can both redesign technology and change how we bring it into our lives. A

Anthropologist Victor Turner writes that we are most free to explore identity in places outside of our normal routines, places that are in some way "betwixt and between." Turner calls them liminal, from the Latin word for "threshold.

Anxieties migrate, proliferate.

Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.

She has become part of the tribe by behaving like its members.

The inability to move from one phase of life and change one's self-identity is, "the anxiety of always.

Winston Churchill said, "We shape our buildings and then they shape us."23 We make our technologies, and they, in turn, shape us.

In this dismissal of origins we see the new pragmatism.

The idea of the original had no place.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

every society shapes the therapies it can use.

I'm done with smart machines. I want a machine that's attentive to my needs. Where are the sensitive machines?" —Tweet available at dig_natRT @tigoe via @ramonapringle