Quotes About Adaptation

Nooit, nooit lijkt de toekomst op het heden.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead.

Any tips for winning?" she'd asked. "Yeah. Do what you gotta do to survive." "That's it? Wow. You suck at pep talks.

As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain (kind of) and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard.

Do you know the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." "Wrong. That's the definition of determination.

Life sucks. We've adapted.

Everything changed. The world. The seasons. Time. People. Nothing and no one ever stayed the same.

What's done is done and can't be undone. We can only move on from here

I'd say I can't catch a break, but I'm currently on the back of a zebra

Cool. I'm Kathryn, but everyone calls me Kat. And do not make any cat jokes or I'll have to hurt you. With my claws." She waved the long, blunt tips of her fingers at me. "Truth is, I stopped speaking meow a long time ago.

People are the most difficult thing in the world to change

The thing is, we all have a little animal in us, and if you ask us to, we can do a very good job of behaving like one.

I know in another decade or two I'm going to have to get used to the idea of reading without paper in my hands, but I'm going to be making that trip kicking and screaming. Maybe that sounds stubborn, but my relationship with the printed word is the longest one I've ever had and I'm not ready to quit on it yet.

No private property after an apocalypse

Whenever I think about the Enkidu story, I think Kipling really missed out on a much better ending for The Jungle Book.

CIO stands for "Career Is Over.

By relentless and constant experimentation in their daily work, they were able to continually increase capacity, often without adding any new equipment or hiring more people.

the Third Way focuses on creating a culture of continual learning and experimentation. These

Are we playing to win and to establish the technical supremacy we need to keep up with what the business needs, or do we just keep limping along, shackled to things built decades ago, and tell our business leadership to throw in the towel and stop having good ideas?

Ward Cunningham in 2003. He said, 'technical debt is what you feel the next time you want to make a change.

we are no longer able to respond quickly to our changing competitive landscape, nor are we able to provide stable, reliable service to our customers. As

Business agility is not just about raw speed. It's about how good you are at detecting and responding to changes in the market and being able to take larger and more calculated risks.

It is virtually impossible to make any business decision that doesn't result in at least one IT change.

Ah… Now I see it. What can displace planned work? Unplanned work. Of course.