Quotes About Adaptation

We encounter a startling "Fitness-Beats-Truth" (FBT) theorem, which states that evolution by natural selection does not favor true perceptions—it routinely drives them to extinction. Instead, natural selection favors perceptions that hide the truth and guide useful action.

I majored in Creative Writing in college. Then I got over it.

If buyer's remorse ever accomplished anything in this world," Max said, "we'd all still be living in caves.

You wanna know what's happening to New York?" he asked. "I tell you what you do. You go to a used-magazine store, you look at the covers of science fiction magazines from the thirties. That's what's happening to New York.

Well, she was dead, and there was no use crying over spilt milk.

Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.

Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back.

A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistake is the rapid learner.

If you learn from every mistake, you never fail at anything.

Man must learn that his current path is not suitable for Earth, and soon, Earth won't be suitable for Man.

People say to me 'You've changed.' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.

Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.

Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life.

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you've got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!