Quotes About Adaptation

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.

The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse who gets the cheese.

I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn't doing what I was doing.

Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle.

The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les.

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

Ho l'orologio che va avanti di tre ore ma non sono mai riuscito ad aggiustarlo. Così da Los Angeles mi sono trasferito a New York.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Buildings keep being pushed around by three irresistible forces—technology, money, and fashion.

The scale of forces, this time, is planetary; the scope is centuries; the stakes are what we call civilization; and it is all taking place at the headlong speed of self-accelerating human technologies and climatic turbulence. Talk of "saving the planet" is overstated, however. Earth will be fine, no matter what; so will life. It is humans who are in trouble. But since we got ourselves into this fix, we should be able to get ourselves out of it.

They should." "Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the simplest hope, a nonce catchphrase like so many others lifted from favorite movies or TV shows that served as a rote substitute for conversation and bound them like shut-in twins, each other's best and, most often, only audience.

Being agreeable didn't make people less difficult.

De tijden en de smaak zijn veranderd en de mensen ook. Men moet, ik herhaal het, nooit trachten een geliefde kennis uit lang verleden tijden terug te zien - nooit trachten iets te herleven van 't geen voorbij is. Le passé a ses mirages, maar laat u er niet door begoochelen.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.

Dressed as man, and with all the poise of someone at least six years older, he had learned quickly from his Magravandian classmates.

She'd taken her environment so much for granted, unaware that things inevitably change, and so they did.