Quotes About Adaptation

The digital revolution reduces everybody to the state of musicians.

Anywhere there is variety there is the risk of change. Change that can't be tolerated.

A massive rate of change is normalcy for America. What we need is planned change—Progress. We need Progress!

I can't ask you to change," her husband said. "People only change if you give them time.

Because these things never work out as you plan. Reality's a horde of mice, nibbling away in the basement of your dreams.…

That doesn't mean that the Internet of Things will triumph, because, in some ways, it can't win. It's too broad and vague to win; it's a huge, looming infrastructural phenomenon, much like "electrification" or "automation" once were. People never voted to become electrical or automated.

Sustainability is never a static goal. It can only be a process.

It's an old story," Ryumin said. "Something like that actually happened once; I feel sure of it. But I filed off the serial numbers and made it my own.

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century's frontier.

We'll exchange rings, we'll throw rice. We'll put down roots.' We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials.

Pour se repérer dans l'incertitude, il faut d'abord se perdre dans la complexité.

hot-rodding lasted until the 1980s when, as Matthew Crawford observes, electronic engine management made everything under the bonnet 'a little opaque'. It is hard to rod a computer.

Planning, gentlemen, is 'What are you going to do next year that's different from what you did this year?'" he told them. "All I want is five items.

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.

Changing yourself changes everything.

I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.

The horse isn't so different from us. In order to learn, you have to make mistakes. Then you recalibrate, make a decision, try something different, and try again.

Human biochemistry works at its best at around 98 degrees F, and while adaptation to living in and visiting different environments is possible, from the Mojave to the moon, adaptation to altered body core temperatures is not possible.

Of the two environmental temperature extremes, heat and cold, the human body is better adapted to deal with heat. With virtually hairless skin filled with abundant sweat glands, powered by a cardiovascular system of marvelous endurance, humans function well when the mercury rises. You are not, however, a foolproof design. Overheating can ruin your day—and your life.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.