Quotes About Adaptation

ruthlessly pulled weeds and spent blossoms.

We're a land that absorbs our invaders, and makes them one of us.

Sometimes a detour is more interesting than a planned route, and you get to the same place eventually.

always knock a wall down, and build a nice walk out of it.

someone had spoiled her routine and pricked her contentment bubble.

transformation

driven out. The cougar and the wolf stay, but

To improve is to change; To be perfect is to change often. —WINSTON CHURCHILL

Can't fix what used to be, only what is coming up.

For any machine subject to a varied external environment to act effectively it is necessary that information concerning the results of its own action be furnished to it as part of the information on which it must continue to act.

The reason so many well-considered ideas appear laughable in retrospect is that people involuntarily assume that whatever we believe and prioritize now will continue to be believed and prioritized later, even though that almost never happens. It's a mistake that never stops being made.

everything I understood seven hours ago has already changed, and that I have to learn everything again.

Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary.

The Brady Bunch Movie, released in February of 1995

And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.

accelerated culture does not respond well to the nonobvious.

flaws that didn't seem unacceptable until they were already eradicated.

The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true—both objectively and subjectively—is habitually provisional.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.

You have to keep recycling yourself.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.