Quotes About Adaptation

complex system: a system in which large networks of components with no central control and simple rules of operation give rise to complex collective behavior, sophisticated information processing, and adaptation via learning or evolution.

How is it that those systems in nature we call complex and adaptive—brains, insect colonies, the immune system, cells, the global economy, biological evolution—produce such complex and adaptive behavior from underlying, simple rules?

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

The future is not set in stone, and even if it was, stone can be broken.

Everything changes your life.

I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.

Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes.

I just want it to go back to the way it was." "It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.

In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we're fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands." "Then learn to live without your hands." "No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger [...]

It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.

people hate change and, more than anything, they hate those who try to change things.

We'll kill each other, Priestling." "I'll win most arguments, but you'll get used to it.

sabe qué le digo? Que ahora mismo ya tengo bastante superadas las pequeñas decepciones de la vida.

Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.

You've been in the Wild World for long enough to know that everything changes... -Burnet to Moss

I miss that. I want...I need things to go back to normal.

I guess people do have different ways of dealing with stuff,' she said diplomatically, 'but you can't run away for ever.

Going backwards is never an option.

He would, in essence, be the person that he was assigned to embody as his cover—and he'd enjoy it. That was the trick, finding the pleasure in it.

I reckon we all have to play different parts for different people. Sometimes I think the only time we can really be ourselves is when we're all alone with nobody to disappoint.

It never got easier, it just got different.

With 'Twilight ' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza ' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.