Quotes About Adaptation

Alice for short. A diochronism. (Title of novel)

It seems to me a proof of the small advance our race has made in true wisdom, that we find it so hard to give up doing anything we have meant to do.

I am you might say, chemically altered.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

William Frederick Halsey (Jr.)

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

Hardin lived in a world he manipulated day to day, you never knew when a piece of information might have a use. Life was a jigsaw puzzle someone had kicked apart on the day Hardin was born and he was still putting it back together a piece at a time.

I can do this, he was thinking. All I have to do is just be as normal as everyone else. All I have to do is just not blow apart like a two-dollar clock. Just pick words and put one of them after the other like a baby learning to walk, like a drunk carefully crossing the street.

You southerners, he said. I've been here for fifteen years and I'll never understand you.

The street finds its own uses for things.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

Sure I arn't a cabbage, that if you pull it out of the ground it must die.

Fragility comes in many forms

There's no great future in being the leading supplier to a dying industry.

Most of the mainframe computer companies never successfully made the transition to minicomputers, and most mini-computer companies missed out on PCs.

They are merely partaking of the evolutionary miracle found most obviously in man, but not necessarily any more useful to his survival than a raven's, or a cat's, or a chimp's is to its.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

Whatever necessities you require, work to get them. If you fail to get something, then smile and try again in a different way. If you succeed, then enjoy what you get, but without attachment.

We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves.

We cannot read the same works forever. Our honey-moon, even though we wed the Muse, must come to an end; and it is followed by indifference, if not by disgust.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I shall not be able to find my way across the room, nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life.