Quotes About Adaptation

but of course any time we become something other than ourselves, it is just death by another name.

squinting thousand-yard stare of a person who has lived both in bright sunshine and among crocodiles and hippos his whole life.

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

Instead of revamping school policies to welcome every child, many school systems are bent on revamping the students to conform to their schools.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

did what people will do in politics, or on the sea when the wind is against them,—I tacked.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

It is now clear that we have hung on to too much for too long.

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

The second flaw is that some activities, almost by definition, defy being broken down into steps.

As you know, you go to war with the army you have. They're not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.

Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes. —RUSSELL ACKOFF,

Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes.... Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes. -RUSSELL ACKOFF,' operations theorist

A system generally goes on being itself, changing only slowly if at all, even with complete substitutions of its elements-as long as its interconnections and purposes remain intact.

The world is nonlinear. Trying to make it linear for our mathematical or administrative convenience is not usually a good idea even when feasible, and it is rarely feasible.

Loss of resilience can come as a surprise, because the system usually is paying much more attention to its play than to its playing space.

There always will be limits to growth. They can be self-imposed. If they aren't, they will be system-imposed.

Before you disturb the system in any way, watch how it behaves.