Quotes About Adaptation

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

Evolution is cleverer than you are.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster? Those are perfect designs, and there is nothing to add really.

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.

My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design.

What's perfect now, might not be so 10 years hence. Whatever we're basing our design ideas on is not what we remember in the past. It's something that kind of folds in on itself.

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

Design is the last great competitive advantage.

So much of design is context.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.