Quotes About Adaptation

your mind, as it was evolved to do, will attempt to avoid excess expenditure of energy when possible.

This behavior, of course, is adaptive. In Paleolithic times, it was important that you carefully managed your social standing with other members of your tribe because your survival depended on it. In the twenty-first century, however, new technologies have hijacked this deep drive to create profitable behavioral addictions.

the problem with lag measures is that they come too late to change your behavior:

The key question will be: are you good at working with intelligent machines or not?

These changes crept up on us and happened fast, before we had a chance to step back and ask what we really wanted out of the rapid advances of the past decade

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

Change isn't something most people enjoye, even if it's progressive change.

There are certain things a man cannot control.

Change isn't something that most people enjoy, even if it's progressive change.

I'd seen this happen several times before, in different institutions, but it was no less remarkable on each occasion: the words were like the flow of water over coals, taking away crackling heat and leaving only a steaming whisper, a perhaps momentary but nonetheless effective remission from deep-burning fire.

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

i had to cease to mourn what could never be & learn to make the most of what was possible. & i would begin by trying to mend the hurts of the past

Humans do seem to be the most intelligent species on Earth, but this wasn't inevitable. Things could easily have turned out otherwise. If the chimplike ancestors of humans had not moved out of the forest and into the savanna, the whole course of human evolution might not have happened. If our early ancestors had been unable to adapt to their new environment, then chimpanzees might be the most intelligent animals on Earth without being much different than they are today.

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.

Era mais fácil não se importar, ir com a maré e se preocupar com um dia de cada vez.

hace un par de años.

We must accept our pain Change what we can and laugh at the rest

Nature is always pulling the rug out from under our pompous ideals.

Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.

It used to be she didn't get dressed a lot of days. Now she comes out of her room most mornings dressed like she's ready to go. She still doesn't go anywhere, but the important part is, she could.

I don't know, I'm making this up as I go.

The form of money has changed over time, but the basic infrastructure of financial institutions has not.

Why did they have so many clothes, anyway? Life was so much easier in India, where a boy needed only a pair of shorts.