Quotes About Adaptation

Man is a degeneration of what he was.

Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.

Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

When men change, maybe Bond will change.

Man is a tool-making animal

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let's go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].

The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.