Quotes About Adaptation

but in the beginning, she was—well, susceptible to improvement.

I prefer to live in the South but on my own terms. It takes some doing to insert oneself in such a way as not to succumb to the ghosts of the Old South or the happy hustlers of the new Sunbelt South.

There is abundance of opportunity for the man who will go with the tide, instead of trying to swim against it.

It's like there's this wave coming toward me, but there's nothing I can do about it. And then it reaches me, crashes over me and...and I'm done for another day. I just give up. Give in to it. Because how do you stop a wave? You don't. And you're wise to recognize your powerlessness to do so. But what you can do is learn how to negotiate this wave. Work within the context of its inevitability.

That's the problem with survival of the fittest ... the corpse at your fett. That little inconvenience.

You were the same person, no matter what state you happened to be stuck breathing in.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference. Viveca comes downstairs first and heads into the

I ask you for the time of day, you tell me how to build a clock!

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If there was a nuclear holocaust, there'd probably be two surviving life forms: cockroaches and Cher.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.

However convenient this dwelling, we cannot remain here.

Let me sing to you now, about how people turn into other things from Leaves of Grass

desarrollar el arte de citar sin comillas hasta alcanzar el máximo nivel

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. —ALBERT EINSTEIN, IN A LETTER TO HIS SON EDUARD, FEBRUARY 5, 1930

One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will, he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

We kind of missed the boat on that, he recalled. So we needed to catch up real fast. The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it find itself behind.

Lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves. Hewlett-Packard had done that repeatedly; it started as an instrument company, then became a calculator company, then a computer company. Apple has been sidelined by Microsoft in the PC business. You've got to reinvent the company to do some other thing, like other consumer products or devices. You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.

to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked out a solution. "The smell and behavior wasn't an issue with

He kept asking Kay and others for an assessment of "trends" that foretold what the future might hold for the company. During one maddening session, Kay, whose thoughts often seemed tailored to go directly from his tongue to wikiquotes, shot back a line that was to become PARC's creed: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."60