Quotes About Adaptation

She had arrived in dirty rags and had cooked up a striking outfit for herself, out of relief donations

You're better equipped for this world than I am, she said. I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

Civilization is a mutant beast that emerged from the shattered egg of primitive stability.-Sissy Hankshaw

The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.

Morality depends on culture. Culture depends on climate.

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

The dinosaurs died so that chat rooms may flourish

Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?

At the bat of your lashes peacocks preen. Peacocks preen, elephants remember, camels go for days without water, and dinosaurs of all types become extinct.

an electronic technology, cultural changes occur more rapidly than value systems can accommodate them, and in the resulting confusion technology itself becomes a surrogate religion. Christ, the core symbol of Western

In that nondescript period between the end of the beige fifties and the beginning of the Day-Glo sixties, I found myself drifting unfulfilled in an ocean of circumstance.

So nowadays hard-minded men with hard muscles and hard hats are relieved from their jobs

Image of a Roman wax tablet, which looks very like an iPad.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers. — Grace Hopper

Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.

the change was adjustment without improvement.

How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.

Correct what you can; learn from what you can't.