Quotes About Adaptation

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.

Success is always more likely when you are swimming with the current rather than against it.

Your job next year will not resemble your job this year. If it does, either your employer is not thriving or your position in the company is not secure.

most people do pretty well when things go pretty bad.

The principles that explain why some genes are transmitted more successfully than others also explain why some beliefs are transmitted more successfully than others.

Éramos su cuentista, nos hemos convertido en su contable.

En otras palabras, no pierda la cabeza, nada ocurre como está previsto, es lo único que nos enseña el futuro al convertirse en pasado.

Au fond, ce journal aura été un perpétuel exercice d'accommodation. Échapper au flou, maintenir le corps et l'esprit dans le même axe… J'ai passé ma vie à « faire le point ».

Le lingue evolvono nel senso della pigrizia.

There has been a change in attitude, though.

Of course, an unchanged mind is a little like unchanged underwear. It tends to get unattractive even to the person whose mind or underwear it is.

I have to remind myself that I've always known this: Evolution is not for everybody.

Next time you're overwhelmed, just remind yourself that this isn't completely foreign. This isn't square one. Things are different, but they're still a little the same.

Whatever's going on with us, it's not a disease. It's not a beast. It's just a new muscle. You're never going to control it if you're too afraid to flex it.

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

Los sabios de la antigüedad, que muchas veces se citan para apoyar alguna idea, eran sabios en su época, pero no en la nuestra.

It's hard to go old-school in the modern world. Gabriel Allon

Indeed, there were more blank spots on the canvas than those covered with pigment. Gabriel effectively had to repaint the entire work, incorporating the small

Change is good, Nouredine. It keeps everyone on their toes. – Christopher Keller

He looked older, harder, perhaps wiser. The Middle East was like that. It turned hope to despair, idealists into Machiavellians.

He didn't know it, but America had a need for David Fairchild. The bare agricultural landscape at the beginning of his life would transform by its end into a colorful portrait: yellows from tropical nectarines and Chinese lemons, reds of blood oranges from Mongolia, greens from Central American avocados and grapes from the Caucasus, even purple from dates, raisins, and eggplants that sprouted first in the Middle East.