Quotes About Adaptation

You couldn't be the same and still experience, for experience alters. And such sequential alteration is the purpose of 3D life, after all.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

The species of life notice their differences in time of scarcity.

Let's be honest. We all in our secret minds live elsewhere, or who could survive in this freakin' world?

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

The personality, in effect, is made up of one's coping repertoire and ability to adapt and therefore creates immunity to invading stressors or, in keeping with the analogy, bacteria. Throughout development, one faces crises and challenges. As development occurs, the system learns to respond, shift, adapt, and cope. However, if the system is overwhelmed by stressors insurmountable to the existing coping system, the system cannot effectively manage.

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.

The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Settling Down is seen as something of a renunciation of the Good Life (it is, of course, for most, a swapping of one sort of good life for another).

to be cool, decisive, precise, yes, while the barn door hits you in the face

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it's safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don't grow anymore.

It is probably not a joke that computer games, spectator sports, television violence fantasies, and weekend hunting and fishing expeditions are the necessary transformations of outmoded but undiminished vestigial drives and skills that humans still carry with them. But is the creation of a menu of imaginative diversions our only recourse to the unremitting sway of an obsolete "hunter-gatherer" heritage?

Culture is nothing but a set of successful patterns of behaviour grounded in our struggle to survive.

There's plenty of life down there. The trouble is, it sees us coming and steps aside.

For us to perceive intelligence, it has to fit within our behavioural framework.

They're telling us is that this is their planet - which they've been ruling for a hundred and eighty million years, maybe more. They're telling us they've got genetic memory, the magnetic field is their compass, and they're everywhere where there's water. They want us to know that we're in the here and now, whereas they're everywhere and for ever. Those are the facts. It's all in the message, and it says a lot.