Quotes About Adaptation

There are no bad dogs. Every cat gets more lives.

Don't confuse staying the course with clinging to a cursed 'how'.

Walking with Jesus (otherwise known as discipleship) becomes not a matter of learning to do a bunch of new religious things; rather, it means doing the things I have always done but doing them differently.

NIH syndrome is characterized by a decision to discard all of what the other developer accomplished with the intent of demonstrating a superior solution. Such an act of sheer egotism demonstrates little interest in preserving the best of another's work and using it as a springboard to newer heights.

It's funny how life can be sometimes, just when you think you know how everything is, it sneaks out a surprise that really tears the rug right out from beneath your feet.

Sooner or later change kills everything, mate,' I say. 'It's the way of the world.

Looking back, I don't think there was ever a point where I officially gave up on my dreams; instead I think it happened gradually, as these things do, so that I barely noticed the shift in my thinking.

None of us knew how to come back from this moment. This was where the script ended and we all had to improvise.

You know, I never was your dream girl, was I? And you certainly weren't my dream guy. We just sort of drifted together. And you've got to know that if things had stayed the same and my dream guy had turned up—" "I would've been in the way." "And vice versa.

The most important aspect of being in an innovative environment is not being afraid to fail.

Avant d'attaquer chaque nouvelle journée de marche, j'applique une vieille recette esquimaude qui consiste à me moucher dans mes doigts et à étaler le résultat sur mon visage. Qu'on se rassure : il ne s'agit que d'un liquide transparent, qui gèle et forme un masque antigelures plus efficace que toutes les crèmes – ce qui m'évite d'en transporter une, puisque j'ai le nez qui coule en permanence.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Never teach a pig to sing!

With automation at this level, the new "ops guy" won't care if he's responsible for a dozen systems or 10,000. And the modern BOFH is, more often than not, an old-school sysadmin who has chosen not to adapt.

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.

You gotta be prepared for something, pal. No matter how much you think you're doing the right thing, life can still take a wrong turn on you.

I love that we're living the kind of life where things are wearing down around us

Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.

In fact, NASA doesn't use the F-word; instead, they call failure "early attempts at success.

Skiing was for Canadians. Tobogganing was for us immigrants.

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

someone turned our episode into an off-Broadway musical, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, a story of some postapocalyptic survivors who share only one cultural link: the "Cape Feare" episode of The Simpsons. They recreate the script and perform it as a traveling theater troupe. In act 2 we see their play seventy-five years later: it's become as ritualized and bizarre as a Greek Orthodox Mass. I'm

Comedy, like composting, involves smart recycling.