Quotes About Adaptation

Change is hard. It's hard for you, it's hard for me, it's murder on your sister." His voice breaks.

I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.

Family is what it can be, not what it should be.

Ed. Note: Unfortunately true (also happens in back seat of cars) (#HardToLiveWith)

It turns out, to disrupt someone else's business, you have to add a net new line of business to your own portfolio. This

Technologies from a prior era, once the focal point of innovation, now become the scaffolding upon which next-generation innovation will build.

the company may be saying "state-of-the-art" when the pragmatist wants to hear "industry standard.

The winning strategy does not just change as we move from stage to stage, it actually reverses the prior strategy.

Big enough to matter, small enough to lead, good fit with your crown jewels. If

In December 1941, when Australians began to sense that they were plunged into a new environment, the spectacles they had carried out from Britain were obsolete. They needed spectacles that would correct short-sightedness. They had to see the environment they were in as clearly as the environment they had left across the world.

Innovation is usually not a gigantic step but a series of small jumps involving various enterprising people whose names are soon forgotten.

During their long period of unease about a hot Christmas, Australians rarely noticed that they had more access than their British relatives to a vital part of the traditional Christmas story: 'the stars in the bright sky'. Eventually they ceased to lament that their Christmas came in hot weather.

Men loven of propre kynde newefangelnesse.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

You could be the fittest person imaginable in terms of strength, intelligence, disease resistance and vitality, but if you fail to reproduce your contribution to the future of the human gene pool is zero. For anything to evolve it has to affect the probability of passing on your genes.

By intelligently choosing their sexual partners for their mental abilities, our ancestors became the intelligent force behind the human mind's evolution.

Nothing that is will always be.- Open Mic Singer

If you tell me the size of a mammal, I can use the scaling laws to tell you almost everything about the average values of its measurable characteristics: how much food it needs to eat each day, what its heart rate is, how long it will take to mature, the length and radius of its aorta, its life span, how many offspring it will have, and so on. Given the extraordinary complexity and diversity of life, this is pretty amazing.

Ants brilliantly self-organized to evolve remarkably robust and hugely successful and sophisticated physical and social structures, but it took them millions of years to do so. Furthermore, they accomplished this more than 50 million years ago and have barely evolved beyond it since.

So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?

It's extremely difficult to kill a city! On

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.