Quotes About Adaptation

ALL ANIMALS ARE UNDER STRINGENT SELECTION PRESSURE TO BE AS STUPID AS THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH.

Extended periods of lungfish-like dormancy8 (the "undead" state) developed in response, as a means of reducing vampires' energetic needs. Vampires

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.

If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.

Bir di? çektirdikten sonra bile yerinde a??zdan daha büyük bir bo?luk kald??? zannedildi?i halde, ayr?lan bir baca??n yerinde kalan uçurumun ba? dönmesine nas?l al???l?r?

Modern ilmin ?üpheci ve kontrolcü zekas?, inanmad?klar?ndan evvel ?imdiye kadar inand?klar?ndan ?üphe etseydi, yirmi senede bir bilgisinin prensiplerini altüst eden ink?laplar kar??s?nda ?a??rmazd?.

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this

There's an old Jewish saying: "Two things in the world you absolutely should not worry about: what can be fixed and what cannot be fixed. What can be fixed should be fixed at once, without worry. What cannot be fixed, can't be fixed - so why worry about it?

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Agatha blinked and then reexamined the stick. "That's true. All right then, I'll improve it. I'll bet there are all kinds of things I can do to make it stronger." Dimo raised an eyebrow. "As ve iz fightink our vay through a var zone?" "It will be an excellent way to get parts." Dimo grinned. "Vhen hyu poots it dot vay, hit almost makes sense!

Malek: … does this mean no more kissing? Varpa: … less kissing. This is important .

One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.

The Deconditioning Process is one which never ends, for even as we shake ourselves loose from limiting behaviors and beliefs, so too, we tend to form new ones.

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. INDIAN PROVERB (PUNJABI)

to organic. Well… that wasn't going to happen.

All the things that might have been. Everything changing before you were ready, like pages of a favourite book ripped out to reveal a different story and new characters you were supposed to relate to instantly, the old ones suddenly gone for ever.

Maxims Hidden in the Text Try, fail, analyze, adjust, try again. John Maynard Keynes cycled through these steps ceaselessly. 178 An imperfect decision made in time is better than a perfect one made too late. 215-216 Plans are merely a platform for change. Israeli Defense Forces slogan. 222 If we ask many tiny pertinent questions, we can close in on an answer for the big question. 263

A forecaster who doesn't adjust her views in light of new information won't capture the value of that information, while a forecaster who is so impressed by the new information that he bases his forecast entirely on it will lose the value of the old information that underpinned his prior forecast. But the forecaster who carefully balances old and new captures the value in both—and puts it into her new forecast. The best way to do that is by updating often but bit by bit.

glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) liberalized

Plans are merely a platform for change. Israeli Defense Forces.

Popular books often draw a dichotomy between intuition and analysis—"blink" versus "think"—and pick one or the other as the way to go. I am more of a thinker than a blinker, but blink-think is another false dichotomy. The choice isn't either/or, it is how to blend them in evolving situations.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.