Quotes About Adaptation

You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp.

Si no entiendes algo, puedes hacer que signifique cualquier cosa.

Conditions change and we mutate.

Je?li raz przekroczysz jak?? granic?, ju? zawsze b?dziesz j? przekracza?.

No doubt, this is the kind of stress the constantly mutating AIDS virus must feel.

Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture." And

Never go longer than sixteen months without something new because after sixteen months people quit coming in that door and asking me if you have another book yet.

Was uns in der Hölle quält, ist unser Festhalten an einer einmal gewählten Identität.

Personas que conozco y que solían llevarse pornografía al cuarto de baño, ahora se llevan el catálogo de muebles de IKEA.

How what looks cool later on always looks crazy at first. "If numbers could explain the physical world, words would explain the invisible one.

The droid stands up. Servomotors whir as it regards its repaired arm—an arm that's not so much an arm as it is an astromech leg. It spins the leg around, slow at first, then faster and faster until it's just a blur. "THIS IS NOT MY ARM." "I know, Bones. Sorry." "THIS IS AN ASTROMECH LEG." "No, no, I know." "ASTROMECHS ARE INFERIOR. THEY ARE BEEPING BOOPING TRASH CANS. I AM MADE INFERIOR BY THE INCLUSION OF THIS NON-ARM.

he'd subsumed a whole new identity. Into each world he went, he became someone slightly new to appeal to the Oliver of that place: sculpting himself into a key that fit into the hole in every Oliver's heart.

The future is suddenly unpinned—evolving, spinning, leaping about like a panicked tree-loormor.

Homeland Security. Everyone had gotten so adapted to it, they forgot that it sounded like something out of 1984. Motherland, Fatherland, Homeland—these were, to him, implicitly un-American ideas, words antithetical to the mishmash hodgepodge of humanity that made up the citizenry of these United States.

competitive exclusion (n) 1. a situation in which one species competes another into extinction.

A problem is a way of creating a future. When plants grow and evolve they do so by way of problems, developing features to avoid predators, to maximise light or to retain moisture.

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.

It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.

We're completely invisible. I thought it wasn't true, or not true of me, but I've learned I am no different at all. The question now is how to work it, how to use that invisibility, to make it burn.

Don't plan it, don't overthink it, just let it happen, you've got to find a way to bridge the chasm from here to there, from this unthinkable present to some unthinkable future . . .

But our friendship was, at the same time, like a city you hadn't visited in a long time, where you know the streets by heart but the shops and restaurants have changed, so you can find your way from the church to the town square, no problem, but you don't know where to get ice cream or a decent sandwich.

It was like splashing in a blowup baby pool in the backyard, when you'd become used to swimming in the ocean. How

The guy I'm thinking of doesn't really look like me-not exactly. It's more that he looks like…like everyone…and no one…all at the same time. It's as if he let go of his true self…so he could play any part…be whomever someone else most desired him to be. I don't see how that could make anyone very happy.

Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.