Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.
I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.
I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.
That's crazy," I say "In case you hadn't noticed, the whole world has gone crazy. It's time to adapt or die." "By throwing crazy at crazy?
Humanity is so adaptable [...] Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.
Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process.
For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.
True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.
If one keeps on adapting, their contribution will be limited. They can only imitate but never create.
And the Earth Becomes my Throne I adapt to the Unknown Under Wandering Stars I've grown I ask no one.
Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.
For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.
Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.
What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?
I’m the winner of the “Best Interpretive Dance” for my adaptation of Joyce’s Ulysses into crunk. That’s cool and all, but you should see my Dostoevsky.
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to yo...
We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.
When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
