Quotes About Adaptation

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

It is such an uncertain universe out there that you have to create what I call 'real' options and develop capabilities that will enable you to deal with an environment that will change anyway.

According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man.

Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

Four guys go out and four guys go in like the storm troopers in the Star War movies.

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

Everyone who makes a Star Wars film wants to make it their own but they also have to be true to the concept.

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.