Quotes About Adaptation

I found that Dottie's middle age, old age, made rock of much that had been fluid, and eccentricities once charming became too strange for safety or comfort.

They've continued to think of VR as primarily a game technology. But it's got the potential to be much, much more.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or so I tell myself, anyway.

It was amazing how flowers could grow in the damnedest places

Fire and falling water. Always the same, yet always changing.

A man of fifty-six, who has been all his life accustomed to his own room and a clean bed, does not find it very easy to sleep on the floor on a pile of dirty straw. He simply cannot master the technique of the thing.

In the camp at Les Mille I observed again in myself and in others how very quickly the human being becomes acclimated.

I always thought it was a question of achieving some permanent state of tranquillity ... but it's not. It's more like learning to surf. The waves keep rolling in, each different from the last, and you have to ride them, instead of getting pounded to bits.

You can go three minutes without air, three hours without shelter, three days without water, and three weeks without food.

Humans are interesting, however. Our ability to adapt is truly impressive. Our rage against our own suffering. Our relentless need to find a way out, to do something, anything, to advance our lot in life.

YOU SPEND ENOUGH time chasing a dog to get back a precious black boot, you start to think like a dog. Spend the rest of your time chasing criminals, and you learn to think like a criminal.

Man can progress as much as we want. Mother Nature still owns our ass.

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

A revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.