Quotes About Adaptation

We're never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.

To efficiently produce quality products sounds like a good goal. But can that goal keep the plant working? I'm bothered by some of the examples that come to mind. If the goal is to produce a quality product efficiently, then how come Volkswagen isn't still making Bugs?

What is needed is just the courage to face inconsistencies and to avoid running away from them just because "that's the way it was always done".

But as you said, the complexity of our organizations almost guarantees that there are not many of them.

Deciding that the company is wasting too much money on duplicated efforts and thus moving to a more centralized mode. Ten years later, we want to encourage entrepreneurship and we move back to decentralization.

El me dijo que cuando la gente juzga que un cambio es bueno, lo acepta. Tu actitud hacia el cambio se modificó en el momento en que tomaste conciencia de sus efectos.

to avoid feeling disappointed, one has to expect that things will, most probably, not work the first time.

But when the nature of the constraint has changed, one would expect to see a major change in the way we operate all non-constraints.

The above doesn't mean that, for environments in which the assumptions of Lean are not valid, fragments of Lean cannot be used

Change what you can. Accept that which you cannot change. Forgive it all.

I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

I am very well and shall be better for the change, though Robert is dreadfully afraid, as usual, that I shall fall to pieces at the first motion....

Impatience and cutting corners: it's the primate way. It got us down out of the trees and up to the top of the evolutionary heap as a species, which is a lot more like a slippery, mud-slick game of King of the Hill with stabbing encouraged than any kind of tidy Victorian great chain of being or ladder of creation.

If you have to constantly alter your natural mental state to survive a situation, doesn't it follow that the situation is toxic?

When the world is ending sometimes you have to save the party until there's time to bake.

We eat our mates if we can catch them. Everybody's got some evolutionary baggage that winds up maladaptive in a sophont setting.- "Valuable protein resource." I shrugged. "And it's not as if your species is designed for coparenting.

You change in my arms and change again, and all I can do is hold you.

Anyway, dissociation is a great coping skill. It can keep you going and functional basically forever. The problems hit when it starts to break down, which is essentially as soon as you start to question your own detachment.

How did I ever live before I had an AI in my brain?

The sea never changes. And yet, it never stops changing.

She had anticipated that the cultural disconnect would be vast, and she was only just coming to understand how vast it might be.

Every plan had its flow. But sometimes, living in the future was damned cool. Even if she couldn't get a rocket car.

How much of you has to die before you stop being you and become somebody else?