Quotes About Adaptation

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

She would have made a great lizard, basking on a hot rock in the sun.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

If life, by some chance, happens to have originated, and survived, elsewhere in the universe, it will have had time to explore an unfathomable diversity of forms. Those best able to survive the passage of time, adapt to changing environments, and migrate across interstellar distances will become the most widespread. A life form that assumes digital representation, for all or part of its life cycle, will be able to travel at the speed of light.

Life evolved, so far, by making use of the viral cloud as a source of backup copies and a way to rapidly exchange genetic code. Life may be better adapted to the digital universe than we think.

The survival of the fittest is a slow method for measuring advantages," Turing argued in 1950. "The experimenter, by the exercise of intelligence, should be able to speed it up.

God creates; I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it--from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others can do.

If you like something of someone else's, why not take it? The important thing is that it seem natural and fit in.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it – from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do...

My reputation grows with every failure.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.