Quotes About Adaptation

You can't go back. You can't have what was stolen. Just forget...

My great-great-grandchildren will be born with prehensile texting thumbs, no vocal cords and zero capacity to read human facial expressions.

Mine was the Benjamin Button of careers; age and status had both gone backward. It definitely took some getting used to.

nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).

Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him. Everyone will get used to it except me.

narrowly focused specialists may be good at incremental innovation. But breakthrough innovation is often the product of temporary teams whose members cross disciplinary boundaries—at a time when breakthroughs in every field are, in fact, blurring those very boundaries. And this is not just a matter for scientists and researchers.

We are moving swiftly into the era of the temporary product, made by temporary methods, to serve temporary needs.

But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy.

You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? 'Never complain, never explain.

It was a place you could make into a home if your home hadn't worked out.

While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.

A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him.

Nothing is settled; no truth finds general acceptance. What we do one year we undo the next, and do over again the year following. Our energy is wasted in, and our prosperity suffers from, experiments endlessly repeated.

My travels in New Jersey having made me proof against surprise

Un hombre es como un árbol: En un bosque de sus iguales crecerá tan recto como su naturaleza individual y genérica lo permita; solo en campo abierto, cede a las tensiones y torsiones deformantes que lo rodean.

They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.

If there ever was a place where one could start again, it was Manhattan. Move a block, and your enemies become your friends. Move ten blocks and you might never see anyone you knew again.

How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with it, we do as we please. It doesn't require the breakdown of a social order. It takes a six-hour plane flight.

Homesickness was an adjustment disorder, that was the long and short of it.

already know by instinct we're not comfortably at home in our translated world.

Plans have a way of coming apart when you lean om 'em

You would've thought the more pain you suffered, the more you'd get used to it, but it was the other way around.

I got bigger problems than that life hasn't turned out the way you hoped. You can harp on the past all you please, Dow, like some old woman upset cause her tits used to stay up by themselves, or you can shut your fucking hole and help me get on with things.

You can't change the fact the world's full of arseholes. You can only change how you deal with them.