Quotes About Adaptation

Reinventing beats inventing nearly every time.

When roles shift, ideologies have to shift, and ideologies hate to shift. The workaround is pragmatism—"a practical way of thinking concerned with results rather than with theories and principles." The shift is deeper than moving from one ideology to another; the shift is to discard ideology entirely.

Weisman's book, The World Without Us, grew out of two questions, he said. One was, How can I write a best-seller about the environment? The answer to that was the second question: How would the rest of nature behave without the constant pressure we put on it?

Seize the century.

To change is to lose identity; yet to change is to be alive.

Cuando nos enfrentemos a un problema de difícil solución quizá resulte fructífero preguntarnos: '¿Qué haría un microbio?

The temptation to customize a building around a new technology is always enormous, and it is nearly always unnecessary. Technology is relatively lightweight and flexible—more so every decade. Let the technology adapt to the building rather than vice versa, and then you're not pushed around when the next technology comes along.

A frozen bureaucracy and a frozen building reinforce each other's resistance to change

The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was putting things back in place. He could have told them it was no use, though his whole life he'd done the same.

Help us to never cast aside the whole relationship just because it has developed a nonworking part.

Some people are hardheaded and will not attempt to change until they experience a hard lesson.

Lightness brings about nimbleness, nimbleness results in movement, and movement results in transformation.

If you're an alien, how come you sound like you come from the north?' 'Lots of planets have a north.' Doctor Who, 2005

Jeb Bush lost for many reasons, but the basic one is that he was running to win a race in a party that no longer existed. He was like a guy who showed up with a tennis racket at a bowling alley.

Howell hung up the phone and pressed his forehead against the cool glass of the booth. The world was suddenly a different place. He wasn't sure he liked it.

Growing up had made her crabby, which happens to the best of us.

You can't go back to something once it's dead.

Climp. After Sloan's death, the two boys decided to move in with their dad. Joey was in the same graduating class she was. His brother

Better catch up with reality. You're missing the boat. Time's going to come when computers will do everything." "I have trouble believing that. It just seems so unlikely ." "You're not a believer like the rest of us. The day will come when ten-year-olds will master these machines and you'll be at their mercy.

The only cleavage I got left, I sit on," she said and then hooted at herself.

I'm not the kind of person who sentimentalizes nature. The outdoors, as far as I can see, is made up almost entirely of copulating creatures who eat one another afterwards.

Maybe the passing of time had made a monogamous man of Graham.

I didn't know how to be in the world without her.

People start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.