Quotes About Adaptation

He's saying that everything you know is going to change. Things that you are familiar with will become strange and alien, and things you have never imagined will become normal.

Now, I want to get going, but I've only got one leg. Could you find one?

The News of the World no longer exists. How nice to realise that even the most offensive things will eventually require a footnote to explain what they were.

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing. Can you see the sharpest edge of that knife?

Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all.

There's no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way.

Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride.

Anger is to make you effective. That's its survival function. That's why it's given to you. If it makes you ineffective, drop it like a hot potato.

If you don't go crazy because of your husband's vices, you go crazy because of his virtues.

A song of tough love for a generation whose eyes have moved fish-like to the sides of its head, forward vision usurped by a numb need to survive the now, side-placed eyes scanning for any garde of which to be avant .

Democracy is a work in progress. So is democracy's undoing.

Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then the wolves came. Now I am an eagle and I fly in a different universe.

The world was changing, and he was running out of places to hide.

Stop acting like a Terran. Be a Hellan.

We'll never really tame this girl. We'll just learn to live with her." She used to say that a lot, even after I kept reminding her, "I'm not Kylee, I'm Kyle! I'm not a girl anymore. I'm a boy now.

Humans haven't been on Hella long enough. We can vaccinate ourselves against the things we know are out there and all the things we think are out there, but we can't protect ourselves against all the things that might be out there that we don't know.

Soldiers were not trained to hit moving targets. Marksmanship in the U.S. Army was taught on a known-distance (KD) range—fixed target, big bull's-eye, plenty of time. It didn't make a lot of sense.

The Army isn't what it used to be," I lamented to General Cushman one day. "It never was," he replied.

The minute you begin to cruise, to rely on skills learned last year, that's the moment you begin your decline.

New York City today still preserves qualities which existed in seventeenth-century New Amsterdam—and Old Amsterdam

If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

Since NTs are naturally disinterested in tradition and custom, it should be no surprise that they readily abandon the customary for the workable.

Everything is a prototype," says Claudia. "So, we would do an org change and I would say to everyone, 'It's a prototype." Which means (a) I have permission to be wrong and (b) I want your feedback if it's not working.

Love is as big as everything that exists, but love changes and has to change if love is to remain.