Quotes About Adaptation

Her coverall darkens, the colors shimmer through the electropigment like an oil slick, and then it's black.

How does a poor country defeat rich ones?" "Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it." "Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows?" "But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel." "Currency!" "Indeed.

Plane-change maneuvers are expensive.

Cruft is forever. If you peel back the layers that have grown on top of other layers, and keep delving, and grep deep enough, you're going to find base code that was written by some Linux geek in the 1980s or something. File system primitives. Memory allocation routines that were made to run on hacked single-core IBM PCs that had never heard of the Internet.

people are constantly changing and growing.do not cling to a limited disconnected, negative image of a person in the past.see that person now.your relationship is always live and changing.

And so the species is announcing, "We evolve by the principle of…well, evolution." But they never say what that principle IS, because they have confused the process and the principle. The species, on the other hand, which has become clear that evolution is a process—but a process over which the species has control—has not confused "process" with "principle," but consciously chooses a principle which it uses to guide and direct its process.

The second thing to know is that all conditions are temporary. Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.

Now look at these two words: REACTIVE CREATIVE Notice they are the same word. Only the "C" has been moved! When you "C" things correctly, you become Creative, rather than Reactive.

You are right. Evolution is "survival of the fittest." That is the process. Yet do not confuse "process" and "principle.

The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

It's a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn't want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change.

There are better versions of me, Jeremy. It's not like with people. With people you can argue and have tests and music reviews and wars to decide who's better, but with software, it's pretty clear. I get evolved beyond my version number, and then I'm useless.

I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus. Adapted to freezing deep-ocean temperatures, I'd flop around down there at peace. The big concerns of my life would be what sort of bottom-coating slime to feed off of—that's not so different from now—plus I wouldn't have any natural predators; then again, I don't have any now, and that hasn't done me a whole lot of good. But it suddenly makes sense: I'd like to be under the sea, as an octopus.

You lose one friend, you pick up another.

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change.

Great, excellent," the guy had said. "You other people are out of a job! Heh heh. Learn comp sci.

Life can't be cured, it can be managed.

Oh boy, now it looked like a duck

Life is not cured. Life is managed.

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.

No doubt about it, we're smarter than every other living creature that ever ran, crawled, or slithered on Earth. But how smart is that?