Quotes About Adaptation

A relaxed body is more protected from damage.] There is a Daoist saying, "When a child or a drunk falls from a carriage, their bones don't break." This is because they are embodying the qigong principle of song relaxation , and so are able to adapt to the ground as they fall.

Truth is like life in that we cannot freeze it without killing it.

Down here, in our Cajun Magic Kingdom, I'm the Statue of Liberty. La Liberté éclairant le monde. But uptown, where the mold and the mildew still reign supreme, I go by Tiffany Proulx, which sounds like Peru, only without the pesky e inside. Most people call me Tiff, as in a fight, albeit a very small one. More like a squabble. A misunderstanding that's bound to sort itself out. Just give it a little time is all.

At some point, the cost of maintaining perfect compatibility outweighs the value to clients.

Are the teeny-tiny steps feeling restrictive? Take bigger steps. Are you feeling a little unsure? Take smaller steps. TDD is a steering process -- a little this way, a little that way.

Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.

Incremental design—We invest in the design every day, but we have the additional constraint that we need to keep our APIs stable.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

There's this trope that repeats itself in the books you and I read to save our lives: that if where you grew up is killing you, you can leave and make a chosen, identity-based fam that takes up where your bio-fam left off.

We were leaving the empty shells of our childhoods behind and becoming prey.

The game is changing so much. It's not the same game anymore and I don't know, I don't like it. And the money that they're giving these people -- they don't have to workout with their pads two days in a row. Their antics, it's not for me anymore, sorry to say.

Returning to Earth, that was the challenging part.

If, occasionally, my mind gets the sense that the world around me is not doing what I'd like it to do, I may disappear for a day or even a week. That's something I've needed to deal with.

It takes courage for a fruit to fall far from her tree.

La mentira y la verdad eran relativas, ya que los hechos que eran los referentes del discurso estaban cambiando siempre.

You cannot understand a system unless you change it.

The older generation of Vikings no doubt complained that the younger generation were getting soft and did not rape and pillage with the same dedication as in years gone by.

Many people have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse,' but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses.

Ends happen fast, and often arrive before you've been warned they're coming.

Ends happen fast, and often arrive before you've been warned they're coming.

Forewarned is not forearmed. Sometimes you spend so much effort looking for the track that you know is there, that you miss the other one that you didn't know about.

the only answers that are useful are the ones that will help us survive into the future.