Quotes About Adaptation

Ironically, as a result of his move to the country, Cosell- one of the fathers of the Internet-now has only dial-up access from his home.

When you're debugging something and then you figure out that not only is the map wrong but the tools are broken—that's a good time.

The most depressing thing about life as a programmer, I think, is if you're faced with a chunk of code that either someone else wrote or, worse still, you wrote yourself but you no longer dare to modify. That's depressing.

When they realize, "Oh, my program's getting gigantic," what are they going to do? They're not going to know where to start. That's my first instinct because I'm a caveman. Really that probably doesn't even matter because you'll just throw more memory at it and it'll be fine.

Seibel: Have you heard of refactoring? Cosell: No, what is that? Seibel: What you just described. I think now there's perhaps a bit more acceptance, even among the project managers of this idea.

The Web is broken and we need to fix it.

Moore's law doesn't apply to batteries. So how much time we're wasting in interpreting stuff really matters there. The cycles count.

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.

When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.

There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed.

People don't resist change. They resist being changed.

The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition.

We keep saying old people are square. Then when they suddenly aren't—we don't like it!

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it." After all, life is a creative process.

just failing is not the key; the key is to be systematically learning from failures.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

four Fs" of evolutionary survival: Fleeing, Fighting, Feeding and Fucking. If any one of these instincts malfunctions in a species, the species will eventually become extinct.

Most people seem to think that organisms develop adaptive traits in response to environmental change. This is bullshit. The environment changes and those who already happen to have newly adaptive traits don't get wiped out.

Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy.

If you have to go up unarmed against an angry T rex with a four-digit IQ, it can't hurt to have a trained combat specialist at your side. At the very least, she might be able to fashion a pointy stick from the branch of some convenient tree.

I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.

we learned to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favors the paranoid.