Quotes About Adaptation

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

What happens when the future has come and gone?

I used to do machine language programming in the lights on the front panel of a computer; now I do higher-dimensional type theory. It's a little bit crazy.

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.

Todo el pensar nuevo es acerca de la pérdida.

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.

All things change according to the state we are in. Nothing is fixed.

Keep an eye to the future, and ear to the past, and after thinking it over notice nothing much lasts.

A masterful cyclist, marginalized though she or he may be, travels with ease through the modern motorized city. With ease.

weird ideas spark innovation because each helps companies do at least one of three things: (1) increase variance in available knowledge, (2) see old things in new ways, and (3) break from the past. These are the three basic organizing principles for innovative work

Organizations that learn from their failures forgive and remember, they don't forgive and forget.

Vu ja de means seeing old things that are inside and outside the company in new ways.

Focus on "pulling the plug" on failed ideas more quickly, not on reducing your failure rate.

all great technologies are blends of other technologies.

managers continue to use methods that force people to see old things in old ways, expecting new and profitable ideas somehow to magically appear.

Organizations that scale well are filled with people who talk and act as if they are in the middle of a manageable mess.

people "who don't have a chance to take revenge are forced, in a sense, to move on and focus on something different.

The lesson from the Big Mac story is that innovations that ought to be scaled won't happen everywhere but can happen anywhere.

That "telling them where they stand, while giving them the chance to try a new environment, is often enough to get them to change their behavior.

variation leads to excellence in social systems