Quotes About Adaptation

Just because we've always done things a certain way doesn't mean it's the right way.

After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to our survival.

After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world.

The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned.

the 21st Century is really a terrible time to be a control freak.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

My two main conclusions are that technology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic acts, and that it finds most of its uses after it has been invented, rather than being invented to meet a foreseen need.

All human societies contain inventive people. It's just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions, than do other environments.

Yliopistossa kohtaa eloonjäämisvietin degeneroituja muotoja.

I am the Love Cactus. Make desert to me.

From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge.

My advice for a person who's just fallen out of a skyscraper window is, Flap your arms...faster.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

My experience tells me that API users are really creative. Sometimes the API user's horizon is farther than that of the API designer. If there is a way to misuse something, users are likely to do so.

Every API writer needs to have an evolution plan; that is, to know on a strategic level what will happen to the API in future releases.

When a user of the API complains and requests the element to be visible, you can still make it visible. However, don't do so sooner than requested and not without a convincing use case!

If the child's unique qualities are not mirrored or supported, they are not available for her as a foundation. Instead of becoming grounded in her own nature, she adapts to what she thinks she is supposed to be, taking on a false self. For some people, this false self (which we all have to some degree) so obscures everything else that it's all they know.

Sometimes you have to distort reality, to warp it back into normalcy. - Jason Culverhouse

Respect the work that you've never done before.

Limited resources force you to make do with what you've got. There's no room for waste. And that forces you to be creative.