Quotes About Adaptation

All technological change is generational change.

We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us. —John M. Culkin

By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.

Teaching in a village school in Nepal was a freaking piece of cake compared to teaching in my native land.

There is something about African time that even the Swiss find a challenge.

If markets change then so must brands.

They evolve because of the experiences and resulting expectations of people as they buy, use, adapt, discuss and interact with the brand and the absorption of those experiences by employees who in turn can use that knowledge to re-structure and re-present the brand.

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

with the exception of Chinese, even the languages that originated writing, and so made the earliest use of it, have dropped their original system, and borrowed another

The absence of archaea is puzzling given their evident fondness for the worst imaginable conditions on earth and ability to power ecosystems on the slimmest of organic rations. The

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

that the human brain expects permanence. The cup is where you put it. The car is where you parked it (if it hasn't been towed away). The wine is still in the refrigerator where you left it. It's only people, the most complex, important, influential, life-changing elements of our lives, who are there and then are shockingly not-there. And it's surprisingly hard to get one's brain around that. So

We get so set in our ways, you know? I mean, when you meet someone in your teens, like you two did, well, you're still growing, aren't you? You automatically adjust so that you fit together. But when you're my age, all the likes and dislikes are set in stone. That's the trouble.

Isn't life that much easier when you decide to want what is rather than trying to bend life to fit what you want instead?

Some people, possibly aliens, don't favor a dark terminal background. - Hacking the Planet (with Notcurses)

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

You plan, you prepare, and you'll do just fine.

Life goes on. Even after the end of the world as we knew it. I

I'm fast becoming the one who leaves things behind

What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into.

could never get anything going in Toronto, never even got one gig with a band. So I moved instead towards acoustic music and immediately became very introspective and musically inward. That's the beginning of that whole side of my music.

Better to accept what you cannot change and learn to adapt than rail against the immutable and end up wasting time and effort.

Space is going to be the greatest genetic quality filter since the dark ages.