Quotes About Adaptation

As new technologies upend the economics of climate change, the politics surrounding the environment are changing, too.

Our farmers and ranchers constantly evolve and adapt to the conditions surrounding them, and if provided better and faster connectivity, the development of new technologies on the farm will rival any other sector.

Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.

There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.

One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.

When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.

What happened in the early days of Disney is that Walt Disney used all of the new technologies as they came out. When matting came out, they adopted it. They adopted sound and color and xerography. Walt did that. And then, when he died, people began to think that this is just about making films, so they stopped bringing in new technologies.

The lightbulb, the most humble and illuminating of all technologies, when combined with a network connection, transforms itself from being a bulb into a wake-up alarm, a mood alteration mechanism, and in some cases, a cupid's assistant.

Dating back at least as far as the Luddites of early 19th-century Britain, new technologies cause fear about the inevitable changes they bring.

All countries will eventually need to rebuild their growth models around digital technologies and the human capital that supports their deployment and expansion.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Technology is changing the world; it's changing our sport. It's changing the way people are following the NBA.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.

We must become Icelanders in soccer, Israelis in defending our land, Japanese in technology.