Quotes About Adaptation

We work in an industry where people invent technology to avoid what we create.

I'm constantly trying to invent different ways to do things. If you're going to be a television executive, you have to change with the times.

If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

A man should keep inventing and re-inventing himself.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

Truly new inventions take time to play out.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

When you invest in something for so long and you stop and have nothing to fill that space, it can be more of a crisis of identity.

Scouting is like CIA work and investigative work. You create a lot of stuff and try a lot of stuff. Some works and some doesn't. I try to get creative.

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?

Being able to hear an artist and emulate them has been a huge part of being successful as a producer and co-writer. I think it's a problem when a producer comes in to work with an artist, and you can't hear the artist as well anymore. It's very important to me to be invisible.

After 2008, I told people that conservatives were going to be invisible for a while. But, with time, our ideas would be back.

If I never got invited back into the UFC, I would have accepted it and made it work to the best of my ability. If that's the way the dice rolled, then that's just how they rolled.

I think when I started in wrestling, I hadn't realized how difficult locker rooms were going to be. I thought they were going to be more inviting than they were.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Social changes always involve trade-offs.

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

Well, I was never a 'gadget girl.' But in the last few years, the Blackberry and the iPad have changed my life or rather have become a part of my life.