Quotes About Adaptation

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.

Technology changes the medium. I grew up on watching a box in my living room that made my parents happy. After something is gone, the dust will settle and I'll see what's next.

Madame Lefoux shrugged. "I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter.

Technology changes, but people stay the same.

People Propose, Science Studies, Technology Conforms.

My expectation is that technology always changes.

There's nothing worse than being shackled by some miniscule sort of technology you have onstage, and I think your mettle is going to get tested in those moments.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

That's the case with these exponential technologies; our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and exponential, and our brains evolved in a world that was linear and local.

Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?

Technology is a many-headed monster and perhaps it would be better to regress to a safer past and avoid technological change; it is tempting to think like that.

I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.

We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place.

Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me on a daily basis.

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.