Quotes About Adaptation

If people are going to be taken away from him, either through death or a transformation of their personality that makes them into strangers, then he's better off without them.

Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago. Everything is changing.

The Death of Trade Unionism, and toward the Birth of a Labor 3.0,

Think of a caterpillar entering a cocoon. Once he does so, one of two things will happen: He will either transform into a butterfly, or he will die. But no matter what else happens, he will never climb out of the cocoon as a caterpillar. So it is with your protagonist.

My relationship to gravity is permanently altered.

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them... Environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the long run than more open-ended environments. Good ideas may not want to be free, but they want to connect, fuse, recombine.... They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete. The single maxim that runs through the book: Where Good Ideas Come From .

when one looks at innovation in nature and in culture, environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the long run than more open-ended environments.

The ability to learn faster than your competitors is the only sustainable competitive advantage.

The very best companies in the world are best not only because of their creativity, but because of their ability to implement.

Every problem has a better solution when you start thinking about it differently than the normal way.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Dac? o idee pare muribund? sau, pur ?i simplu, irelevant?, poate c? nu-i trebuie decât s? fie introdus? într-un context cu totul nou pentru a fi trezit? iar??i la via??.

Doar pentru c? nu ?tim cum func?ioneaz? un anumit lucru, asta nu înseamn? c? nu func?ioneaz?.

There was permanence in change. It was the only way life could flourish.

the mind evolved to support our ability to act effectively.

You're supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you're not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

Historical events never have simple or obvious implications. Some people thrived by using the very instruments intended to dispossess them.

During times of pandemic, people need to be able to tolerate or accept a certain degree of uncertainty. People who are unable or unwilling to accept uncertainty are likely to experience considerable distress.

The world is not perfect and neither am I; I live with a margin of error.

This also serves as a warning, that science may not yet be in its final form.

As the much quoted lines of a novel of L. P. Hartley put it, "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." I

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.