Quotes About Evolution

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

Strange Change B

I don't know what color I'll be when I come back!

This "betwixt and between" period is like living in a hallway of "divine discomfort." We know at some level that we need to let go, but we're not quite ready to do so yet. As bad as it might feel, this discomfort is often necessary to eventually move us into doing what we need to do. To this end, our unease is a gift.

It seemed strange that someone as old as Aunt Sylvia would talk about growing up. In a way I'm not sure i like the idea that you always keep on doing it. It seems sort of tiring. And then, people don't automatically do it right.

But also, as you go through life, you pick up shreds of things, and eventually you are able to fit them together

Rand studied him and then nodded as if he understood. "Preacher was a force to be reckoned with, but there comes a time when who we were no longer fits who we've become.

Special days, special moments don't last forever. Anyone knows that. Breezes of change blow hard and fast.

I think. I remember the very first occupation I wanted to be -- when, I think, I was about six years old -- was an archeologist. I would like to point out this was before Indiana Jones. It's a point of pride. Then I wanted to be an astronaut. By the time I was in my high school years, I wanted to be a physicist and then by the time I got to college I wanted to be a computer programmer. That's actually what I studied in school and that's what has led me along the path I'm on.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

The secret is we're on, like, our seventh generation of fulfillment centers. And we have gotten better every time. When I was driving the packages myself, one of my visualizations of success is that we might one day be big enough that we could afford a forklift.

If you go back in time 18 years, I was driving the packages to the post office myself, and we were very primitive.

Part of company culture is path-dependent--it's the lessons you learn along the way.

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

Like as our outworn garments we discard, And other new ones don; So doth the Soul these bodies doff when marred And others new put on.

It's always been my long-held belief that eventually insects will take over the world.

The era of big government is over.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child.

My childhood love affair didn't die, it just vanished. Women had stopped wearing hats.

It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they do but you usually get the measure of what they are about on their first outing.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. It's like saying that as of 1932, cars didn't have radios in them, so they should never have radios in them.