Quotes About Adaptation

We cannot easily add lanes to roads, but we've learned how to easily add features to software. This isn't a defect of our software processes, but a virtue of the medium in which we work.

Once you accept that failures will happen, you have the ability to design your system's reaction to specific failures. Just as auto engineers create crumple zones---areas designed to protect passengers by failing first---you can create safe failure modes that contain the damage and protect the rest of the system.

The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.

Science knows now that our brain does not simply store our experiences. Each experience changes the brain, structurally, electrically, chemically. The brain becomes the experience. If we are careful about the experiences we give our brains, we can change the brain itself.

The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing.

It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than to think your way into a new way of acting.

Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

It's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promis.

Good. I didn't hear the four a.m. rooster alarm." "I did," Taylor said. "It went on for like ten minutes before I rebooted it." "You rebooted a rooster?" "I think so. It stopped mid-crow.

I don't believe society has ever grown more tolerant. It just changes targets.

Some people aren't meant to fight. They're meant to pick up the pieces.

I can't use these things," McKenna said, setting down her chopsticks. "Can I have a fork?" Ben's brow furrowed. "But you are Chinese." "Only my genes," McKenna said. Ben looked at her pants. "Your jeans are from China?" McKenna shook her head. "Never mind.

Fate does not bend for us-we must bend to it.

Too many times we lose today's battles because we're still engaged in fighting yesterday's.

Everything human is evolving. Always. This includes our hearts and desires, as well as our bodies.

Sometimes the evolving terrain of life requires us to evolve with it. When those times come, we usually find ourselves quivering on the precipice of change as long as we can, because no one wants to dive headlong into the ravine of uncertainty. No one. Only when the pain of being becomes too much do we close our eyes and leap.

Einstein said that insantiy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.

And remember this. No victory is certain. No situation is hopeless. When you find yourselves in a hopeless situation, change the rules.

sociosexual propagation misfits.

This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

The time is well past for the church, particularly the Western church, to rethink and reimagine what it means to be the church in the twenty-first century.