Quotes About Adaptation

A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options that it reveals at one point, the impasse it presents at another, causes to deviate extensively from his preconceived plan.

Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable.

Às vezes erguia eu os olhos a algum vasto apartamento antigo cujos postigos não estavam fechados e onde homens e mulheres anfíbios, readaptando-se cada noite a viver em outro elemento que de dia, lentamente nadavam no denso licor que, ao anoitecer, surde incessantemente do reservatório das lâmpadas para encher as peças até à borda das suas paredes de pedra e vidro, e no seio do qual eles propagavam, deslocando os corpos, redemoinhos untuosos e dourados.

Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable. Certainly

Apparently Jeff Bezos thought this business model was a great idea, so much so that he acquired an e-card company of his own. My job was to take what I could from that acquired site and build a new Amazon e-card site. And I was expected to have it all up and running in a few months. It was like being told to build an airplane, but with no blueprints, and also you're a cocker spaniel.

learn to live like the wild animals

I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.

I would love to live Like a river flows Carried by the surprise Of its own unfolding - Fluent

By George, I had forty-seven pregnant women with horns trying to take a razoo at me.

took over the ranch, the cowboys had quit feeding silage, so I didn't know much

Basic technical training is, of course, useful. But to treat it as anything more than that is to lock students into technology that will be obsolete by the time they graduate. The time wasted will also deprive them of the basic training in knowledge and thinking that might help them adjust to the constant changes outside. (IV - From Managers and Speculators to Growth)

Gotta love high-tech rednecks, Weaver said

lost a tire. He didn't take the time to worry

either lived in, or recently had lived

Well, you gotta keep up," Kidd said. He paused, looked up at the sky, then said, "You know, I take that back. Really, maybe you don't need to keep up. Maybe keeping up is for idiots.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

After another few days, I noticed I became annoyed whenever I would actually have to ask Asshole for something. How quickly the creepy becomes commonplace.

Don't bring a spoon to a toothbrush fight

Colonization is the key to our race's survival. It's as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.

Hide' isn't a word we like to use, Cassaway said. 'Perform alternative tasks' is the preferred term.

It's the end of civilization as we know it. And it's going to be great for business.

Just accept you're drinking from the fire hose and open wide.

Life goes on even when Jenkins' 'Narrative' is supposed to apply.

Yes. The one advantage we had, which is a thing I brought to the enterprise, was the understanding that the plan was not the goal. The goal was the goal, and we were going to get to it however we could. And if it meant changing our plans, sometimes in the middle of executing them, then we would.