Quotes About Adaptation

We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.

Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.

The overall goal [of counseling] is to help family members become 'systems experts' who could know [their] family system so well that the family could readjust itself without the help of an expert.

Our goal in education should be to foster the ability to use the computer in everything you do, even if you don't have a specific piece of software for the job.

The goal is not to simulate reality right now by going crazy. The goal is to prepare for reality by going slowly

Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?

You can't create a new reality with the same personality.

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Once you accept that perfection is just a goal, screwing up isn't so hard to handle. Each misstep is still a step, another lesson learned, another opportunity to get it right the next time.

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change.

Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

In the early stages of innovation, your goal is to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can.