Quotes About Adaptation

I've felt that I was trying to row a heavily loaded boat in a storm. I've had so much trouble just trying to keep afloat that I couldn't be bothered about things that didn't matter, things I could part with easily and not miss, like good manners and--well, things like that. I've been too afraid my boat would be swamped and so I've dumped overboard the things that seemed least important.

She knew she had changed too, but not as they had changed, and it puzzled her. She sat and watched them and she felt herself an alien among them, as alien and lonely as if she had come from another world, speaking a language they did not understand and she not understanding theirs.

It's a poor person and a poor nation that sits down and cries because life isn't precisely what they expected it to be.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

realizing wryly that almost anything was possible when necessity drove.

Ellen was the audience before which the blustering drama of Gerald O'Hara had been played. Now the curtain had been rung down forever, the footlights dimmed and the audience suddenly vanished, while the stunned old actor remained on his empty stage, waiting for his cues.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Ethics change with technology.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.

The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

Technology is society made durable.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.