Quotes About Adaptation

Organized crime needed to wake up to the twenty-first century.

Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates—a very good game, by the way—I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I've done. Even

If you're going to get by in life, you're going to have to learn to give up the dead.

Sign cutting taught me that terrain determines the route the prey follows 90 percent of the time: you generally have only to follow the path of least resistance to be pretty sure of remaining on the trail of your target. Henry Loving was different. His route took him in directions that didn't seem to make sense, less direct and more difficult. But

Natural selection applies to criminal activity, as well as to newts and simians.

Never seek the wind in the field—it is useless to try and find what is gone." Your

Never seek the wind in the field. It is useless to try and find what is gone.

In the end, it all comes down to how you cope with the unforeseen.

One worm who's happily found himself in a barrel of fresh apples

but he still wasn't sure how to respond to the English obsession with the weather.

No escape plan can ever be foolproof,' interjected the brigadier. 'In the end, it all comes down to how you cope with the unforeseen.

Whenever you're interviewed, think British, act Yiddish

strengthens its circuits when you use it in

expecting to find good twenty-first-century economic answers in a constitution that dates back to 1789 is unrealistic. The Founding Fathers were clever, to be sure, but the cleverest thing they realized is that Thomas Jefferson's famous aphorism that "the earth belongs to the living" means laws from a premodern age should not blindly bind us today.

Come Senators, Congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorways, Don't block up the halls…For the times they are a changin'.

Change cannot be hit-or-miss. It requires constant practice.

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.

Just when she'd got her head on straight, her body started falling apart.

Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities. Jimmy Zizmo, crouching over the Packard's wheel has already changed past understanding.

Lefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In other words: the future. He stepped off to meet it. Desdemona, having no alternative, followed.

Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.

The sonogram didn't exist at the time; the spoon was the next best thing.