Quotes About Adaptation

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

I wasn't sure exactly what "okay" would involve, but I was willing to settle for "unmurdered.

Please calm yourselves and stop talking. Plan A01: Rain Destruction has been superseded by Plan B01: Distract and Extract.

I tuned down my pain sensors and the impact sites faded from explosions down to embers. (I know that's actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run, but there was nothing I could do about it now.)

these weren't intrepid galactic explorers. They were people who had been doing a job and suddenly found themselves in a terrible situation.

The kinet believed that if something was worth saying once, it was worth saying a few more times, but Jai had long recognized that this was not the way of other species. She promised, "I'll stop.

My skin was less even than hers and it gets completely regenerated on a regular basis due to me being shot in the face.

I'd watched family dramas before, but I'd never spent much time around human families before coming to Preservation. (Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.)

I'd just discarded Plan Actually Not All That Terrible and shifted to Plan Approaching Terrible.

Sometimes, when it feels as if life has veered irrevocably off track, the track shifts in ways we never could have imagined.

Having people in different optimal environments increases the chances of survival of the human race as a whole. It is nature's way to preserve her species.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always re-creating yourself.

Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil.

parts of classic MVC don't really make sense for rich clients these days.

When you find you have to add a feature to a program, and the program's code is not structured in a convenient way to add the feature, first refactor the program to make it easy to add the feature, then add the feature.

Architectural refactoring is hard, and we're still ignorant of its full costs, but it isn't impossible. Here the best

It's hard to figure out what the right amount of hiding is. Fortunately, with Hide Delegate (189) and Remove Middle Man, it doesn't matter so much. I can adjust my code as time goes on. As the system changes, the basis for how much I hide also changes. A good encapsulation six months ago may be awkward now. Refactoring means I never have to say I'm sorry—I just fix it.

Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact.

Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Evolution is individual — devolution is collective.

It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.