Quotes About Adaptation

When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.

I player my lower-lofted irons slightly higher-up in my stance. Not as much as variable-length, but a little further up can help golfers adapt to the lower-lofted irons.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

When I came to America, it was Dave Chappelle and a lot of comedians on ComicView. That was my first exposure to stand up comedy, actually.

Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.

It's simple-minded people like that, the ones that are afraid of change, they use everything in their power to defend what they stand up for instead of trying to listen and understand what's going on.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

Big successful corporations have established their own culture by the time you come along, so you have as high of a chance of changing their overall culture as you have of convincing the U.S. Marines to adopt the 'long-haired look' as their standard military haircut.

Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language.

People constantly face problems they've never seen before, and they have to solve them somehow. So a million people come up with a million solutions that are just a little bit different. If computing is being done by fewer resources, there will be enormous security gains by pushing things into standard practices.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

My day-to-day life changes; I don't have any standard day.

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

As accelerators reach higher and higher energies, we may need a new Standard Model, or, at least, today's may need to be modified, but that's the way science operates.

I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.

I accept that I didn't play very well in Italy for the two years. It was lower than my Ajax standard. I don't know why.

My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.

For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin.

I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a hurricane.