Quotes About Adaptation

In a startup car company, everything you do has to be done in a different way than a traditional car company. And the main reason is that all of these big car companies are operating like giant well-oiled machines - you could put a very seasoned executive in, and all he has to do is make sure the machine keeps running.

Decades before we were able to articulate the value of 'getting out of the building' and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.

Startups often have to do dubious things.

My prior stint at 'Newsweek' was a very different world. So it's what it's like to be in one of these kooky software startups as a grown up. It's not entirely pleasant! It's like, 'Oh, I don't fit.'

Startups are all about breaking the rules and changing the 'natural order' of things. So let's do that for Series A terms.

When I moved from Boston to L.A., I floundered. I definitely did time at the Improv and the Comedy Store, making 20 bucks a night. I learned how to be a starving comic. I was an in-debt comic: I ate well on loan.

Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it.

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

Cold is a state of mind.

Serving ice cream isn't exactly like serving in state government, but what I learned guides me today.

State government needs to embrace change and be willing to take responsible risks to move into the future.

We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'

I don't live in the past. I don't play my old records for that reason. I make a statement, then move on to the next.

There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, but I saw plenty of Lynxes, and one cannot write of ducks without mentioning water.

What I appreciate about Sleater-Kinney is that we did six records, and they all felt different. It was a band that was able to encapsulate different sensibilities because we were focusing on it as music and art and not as a statement.

Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They'd earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet.

My sister and I were born in Chile and raised in the States, and my little brothers were born in the States and raised in Chile after my parents moved back in 1995.

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

The world is not a static place. People change, evolve.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.

Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.