Quotes About Adaptation

Always expect something to go wrong. Believe me, if you wrong, your not disappointed. If your right, your ready for it.

You're not built for riding, either," Horace added. "I'd say more saddle sore than homesick." Svengal sighed ruefully, shifting his buttocks for the twentieth time to find a more comfortable spot. "It's true," he said. "I've been discovering parts of my backside I never knew existed.

Struikrovers zijn ook niet meer wat ze geweest zijn,' zei Will met gespeelde spijt terwijl hij Donald duimboeien ombond en hem aan hun kleine stoet toevoegde. 'Waren ze vroeger dan slimmer?' vroeg Maddie. Will haalde zijn schouders op. 'Dat kan toch haast niet anders?

Jammer - ik begon net weer aan mijn oude vertrouwde baard te wennen.' 'Die heerlijke wildernis,' flapte Will eruit.

Always expect something to go wrong," he told him. "Believe me, if you're wrong, you're not dissapointed. If you're right, you're ready for it.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

The reality is if a strategy or tactic is working now, the odds are high that it won't work in the future. There is just too much change taking place in our world for it to be any other way.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.

The First Law of Systems-Survival: A SYSTEM THAT IGNORES FEEDBACK HAS ALREADY BEGUN THE PROCESS OF TERMINAL INSTABILITY.

JUST CALLING IT "FEEDBACK" DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT HAS ACTUALLY FED BACK To speak precisely: IT HASN'T FED BACK UNTIL THE SYSTEM CHANGES COURSE Up to that point, it's merely Sensory Input.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system

IN ORDER TO REMAIN UNCHANGED, THE SYSTEM MUST CHANGE Specifically,

IN SETTING UP A NEW SYSTEM, TREAD SOFTLY. YOU MAY BE DISTURBING ANOTHER SYSTEM THAT IS ACTUALLY WORKING

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.

A COMPLEX SYSTEM THAT WORKS IS INVARIABLY FOUND TO HAVE EVOLVED FROM A SIMPLE SYSTEM THAT WORKED. A

Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you're wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don't seem to care...

I think our 'changes' are not as radical as we suppose - in some way we persist as us...