Quotes About Adaptation

You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now.

We know growing technological developments in artificial intelligence, automation and big data mean that democratic socialism in the 21st century must adapt to such a rapidly changing world.

I believe that if I wasn't born in this technological and 'social media' era, I would have found another way to express myself.

For decades, the pace of technological change in manufacturing has outstripped that in the economy as a whole. And, so, firms - manufacturing firms - have found it easier to continue producing by - with - reducing their workforces.

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Congress should... at least keep pace with technological advances.

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

I'm the ninth CEO of IBM. Every one of my predecessors has steered through a technological shift, and every one left the company in a better position than the person before them and prepared this company with a very strong balance sheet to allow it to continue to invest for the next shift.

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

What we should really be thinking about is what it would look like for a truly intelligent technological species to be interacting with their planet's atmosphere.

The U.K. needs to diversify - to become the technological as well as the financial centre of Europe.

Technological change is essential, but to a natural historian it often feels cold and distancing.

Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate.

Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.

The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.

I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

We've almost been wiped out as a species many times, going back millions of years, and we've survived by reinventing ourselves and enlarging our circles of awareness, inventing new technologies and social structures.

We are approaching a time when human intelligence alone will be incapable of managing a highly advanced society. Existing technologies are rapidly exceeding the human capacity to absorb and process information.

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.

People get comfortable with technologies.