Quotes About Adaptation

La estrategia de "no hacer olas" tal vez era viable como modelo empresarial hace veinte años, pero hoy en día, dada la velocidad frenética del mundo de los negocios, es un despropósito. En la actualidad, quedarse quieto es ir hacia atrás, ¡y a gran velocidad!

si las cosas no cambian, mañana estarán igual que hoy".

la cultura se come a la estrategia de un bocado".

when you make mistakes at least try to make them quickly.

When people get immersed in a culture with strong new memes, it tends to be a sink-or-swim proposition. Either you change your mind, succumbing to peer pressure and adopting the new memes as your own, or you struggle with the extremely uncomfortable feeling of being surrounded by people who think you're crazy or inadequate. The fact that you probably think the same about them is little consolation.

To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

The contrast between genetic and environmental, between nature and nurture, is not a contrast between fixed and changeable. It is a fallacy of biological determinism to say that if differences are in the genes, no change can occur.

For Darwinian biology the organism is the nexus of the internal and external forces. It is only through natural selection of internally produced variations, which happen to match by chance the externally generated environmental demands, that what is outside and what is inside confront each other.

Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again." ? Gautama Buddha

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

the Japanese observe and quietly learn from both.

British and American children are often put in a separate room, right away or after a few weeks or months.

Our old ideas are not so much overthrown as upset. The old is not destroyed; it is replaced. We simply learn to see new things in a different light.

Via?a e ceea ce ?i se întâmpl? în timp ce e?ti ocupat s? faci alte planuri".

Der Triumph der Taktik über die Strategie hat unser Land gelähmt.

Evolution never looks to the future.

This is the law that all life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

Synthesize or improvise.

The Chinese believe in constant change, but with things always moving back to some prior state. They pay attention to a wide range of events; they search for relationships between things; and they think you can't understand the part without understanding the whole. Westerners live in a simpler, more deterministic world; they focus on salient objects or people instead of the larger picture; and they think they can control events because they know the rules that govern the behavior of objects.

Just as police and fire sirens reminded New Yorkers they were home, the sound of car bombs reminded me I was in Baghdad, which had become home for me. I was like a battered wife who can't leave the man abusing her. I had moved into stage four and assumed, as a matter of math, that I was going to die in Baghdad. But still I wanted to stay.