Quotes About Adaptation

When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Commit to not going back to the store no matter what. If you run out of something like a spice or an accompanying vegetable, substitute with something else.

incremental development can be disconcerting for teams and management who aren't used to it because it front-loads the stress in a project.

Intelligence involves a great deal more than the ability to follow rules ( which is what chess-playing program does). It is also the ability to make up the rules for oneself, when they are needed, or to learn new rules through trial and error.

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.

Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.

If you do what you've always done, your life will not get better.

Successful people appreciate where they have come from, but they don't let their past set the tone for their future. Successful people are innovators.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

Evolution is no more than the perpetuation of error.

Evolution is to analogy as statues are to birdshit.

Ale Perez What happened to your right hand? TCKeller hucky made me finger-spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious untill he got it right. it took an hour and a half. i still can't hold a fork. what's the favour.

Hey Trav, When I first got in this course, I didn't want a pervert teaching me. Now I don't mind. —Tony

We shouldn't ever think we know what's next. The only thing we can anticipate is the unexpected.

Ford used to have a better idea now they don't have a clue.

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.

So much of design is context.

Change is the parent of progress."

Come to accept that if your methods don't change, neither will your results."