Quotes About Adaptation

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Societies are being interconnected and we have to adjust to that fact.

I think football reflects our society. Our society changes. The evolution of society dictates the evolution of the game.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skills are still with me. I'm great at physical movement; I can still remember Morse code, and perhaps most importantly, I can fold my socks up into little balls with smiley faces.

I never drank water. Always soda. I didn't use to like water, but I've had to train myself to drink it.

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

I have never been able to play consistently with soft hands.

In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.

I can't see as well as I used to. Which is actually convenient because everything I see is in extremely soft focus! I think that's God's little gift to me.

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

I use a progressive alarm that makes a soft sound at first and then progressively gets louder. But I usually wake on the first sound, so it doesn't disturb my wife. When I used a loud alarm clock, I was more likely to hit it on the head and go back to sleep.

I try to keep it in a very low impact - I have scoliosis, so exercises can be really hard on my back, whether it's too much running, jumping or boxing. I'll do those things once in a while, but I keep it mostly Pilates, resistance-band based, softer exercises that build strength from inside the muscle.

At heart, human beings are what we may call 'generalists,' who have the ability to adapt their internal 'software programs' to different habitats or situations.

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.

In software design, it's all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.

Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect.