Quotes About Adaptation

They said this flat was converted but I think its still heathen

It has been said that once the mind has been expanded by an idea or concept, it can never return to its original way of thinking.

No perfection... more experience. As soon as you reach perfection it is not perfect anymore because you want to try something different.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

People weren't saying Oh wow anymore. They were saying No way instead and she wondered if there was something she might learn from this.

Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.

How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers. How they take the pockmarked world and turn a delicate inversion, making something brainy and rule-bound and smooth, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to repeat the process.

Shoes are like people. They adjust to situations.

it can't afford to be hard. it won't allow itself psychologically.

Living defensively is the central theme of our age. How else can we live? Biologically we've instructed ourselves in the deepest way possible that living in a defensive manner is the only way we'll survive, both in theme and fact.

They're not calling it the feathery plume anymore," he said, not meeting my eyes, as if to spare himself the pain of my embarrassment. "I already knew that." "They're calling it the black billowing cloud." "Good." "Why is that good?" "It means they're looking the thing more or less squarely in the eye. They're on top of the situation.

She lived just three blocks away, in a faded brick building whose limitations and malfunctions she'd come to understand as the texture of her life, to be distinguished from a normal day's complaints.

Devices make us pliant. We want to please them.

We have to change truth a little in order to remember it.

Death adapts, like a viral agent. Is it a law of nature? Or some private superstition of mine?

The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.

The meanings of today may not be the meanings of the future.

Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.

Some things can only be solved by massive cultural changes, which probably means they will never be solved.

With the passage of time, the psychology of people stays the same, but the tools and objects in the world change.

We only need to remember sufficient knowledge to let us get our tasks done. Because so much knowledge is available in the environment, it is surprising how little we need to learn. This is one reason people can function well in their environment and still be unable to describe what they do.

One way of overcoming the fear of the new is to make it look like the old. This practice is decried by design purists, but in fact, it has its benefits in easing the transition from the old to the new. It

When a new way of doing things is vastly superior to another, then the merits of change outweigh the difficulty of change. Just because something is different does not mean it is bad. If we only kept to the old, we could never improve.