Quotes About Adaptation

Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being 'open' to outside energy and templates of better ways to function.

I have worked with different managers in the past and different systems.

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by starting with simple systems that work and evolving from there, not the other way around.

For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.

Sure, there were hopes that Constellation's systems could later be adapted to support more ambitious goals. But Apollo had those hopes, too. It didn't work in 1970, and it wasn't going to work in 2020.

The innovation and creativity that's so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.

We have a lot of systems here on board the space station, and we can't call a repair man when one of them breaks.

Old, deeply engrained systems take time to change, but we can't leave it to time.

When men's lives become extremely hard, women learn how to deal with them and assist them but also develop quiet systems of coping and managing.

We need to build EQ in our AI systems because, otherwise, they're not going to be as effective as they were designed to be.

We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language; it needs an environment to develop. Further, it will adapt to that environment's requirements - from different writing systems to the characteristics of whatever medium is used.

My mother always cooked, every day, proper food. We didn't have fast food. It was probably pretty much meat and two veg, but as time went on and new things came into the culture, she embraced all of that. I grew up with mealtimes and sitting around the table with proper cooking and eating.

What was old can be brought back new, and I bring that to the table. I bring mannerisms, facials, body language, positioning.

I know what I can bring to the table. I have done it all my career, but every team you need something different.

The only things that are a little bit newer are the CD burners, but we hid them under the table, so basically we had the feeling we were somewhere completely different, in another time.

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

We've always wanted to do it, something you could dance to, and deep down we always thought we could bring something to the table if we could do it, but the live shows always made us pull back and be a rock band.

Let's say you would see me in a lot more big movies had I done movies that I'd been asked to do playing bad guys. Now that I have a child on the way, I think that you'll probably be seeing me play more bad guys. If that's what's going to put bread on the table, that's what I'm going to be doing.

You can be forgotten very quickly. So I am aware that I need to stay current, keep connecting, and keep bringing things to the table... Otherwise, you can just disappear.

I think about some of those parents and friends of mine who have to turn their kitchen tables into home offices and school rooms and juggle that, trying to teach their kids. That's pretty hard.

If I could get Office on a tablet, I'd throw my laptop away.