Quotes About Adaptation

Microorganisms will give you anything you want if you know how to ask them.

I used to be very ambitious. But reality taught me that ambition won't get you everything you want. You need more than just passion and hope. It's important to do what I'm good at and suits me.

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

Does anyone know if Lamborghini makes wheelchair vehicles? If not, I want to change that.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.

Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don't do market research.

You can teach an old dog new tricksif the old dog wants to learn.

I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.

It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer – what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.