Quotes About Adaptation

Fit within the environment rather than on top of it." New development can be designed to nestle into rather than intrude on its natural setting. Scenic views both into and out from the property can be protected if this criterion is one that site designers are

The pen would enjoy a second life years later, in the 1890s, when converted into the first electric tattoo needle.)

But one immediate benefit of the press's marveling was that the extensive coverage supplied Edison with creative ideas about how the phonograph could be adapted for many more uses than telegraphy or senatorial speeches.

Launch Fast" is Paul Graham's mantra. Move from the idea to a minimally functional product as quickly as possible. Only by getting a product into the hands of customers, even if the product is only a prototype, is it possible to know what customers want.1 Launching fast is how to make something people want. Judging by the advice that they

You know what I was,You see what I am: change me, change me!

I've heard of sweatin' to the oldies, but this was like drowning in the moldies." - Cher

During most all of human evolution, it was adaptive to conserve energy by being lazy as circumstances permitted. Energy was a vitally needed resourse and could not be wasted. Today this take-it-easy adaptation may lead us to watch tennis on television when we would be better off playing it. This can only aggravate the effects of excess nutrition. The average office worker would be much more healthy if he or she spent the day digging clams or harvesting fruit in scattered tall trees.

Like fever and pain, anxiety and low mood are useful normal responses to some situations.

Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.

The body is not shaped for maximum health or longevity; it is shaped for maximum transmission of its genes. Alleles (different versions of a gene) that increase the number of offspring become more common over the generations, even if that shortens life and increases suffering. This is not merely theoretical. Half of the human population has been shaped by selection to live fast and die young.

Mood allocates] investments of time, effort, resources, and risk taking to maximize Darwinian fitness in situations of varying propitiousness. High and low moods adjust cognition and behavior to cope with propitious and unpropitious situations.

Just as the capacity for experiencing fatigue has evolved to protect us from overexertion, the capacity for sadness may have evolved to prevent additional losses. Maladaptive extremes of anxiety, sadness, and other emotions make more sense when we understand their evolutionary origins and normal, adaptive functions.

Therapists have long known that may depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her energies in another direction.

Therapists have long known that many depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her energies in another direction.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

Not everything needs to be fixed

Not everything has to be fixed.

Somehow, with the passage of time, and the deadlines that life imposes, surrendering became the right thing to do.

We cannot change the cards we are delt, just how we play the hand

That is what it is. We can't change it. We just have to decide how we'll respond.

La experiencia es lo que te queda cuando no consigues lo que querías.