Quotes About Evolution

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

Without people like Dylan and the Beatles and people like Paul Simon, I think rock n' roll would have died out like Dixieland jazz.

The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Every few years, I change my look for the simple reason that I get bored. If you Google Image me, you will see so many different looks: long hair, short hair, clean shaven, beard, etc.

An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.

Failure is easy to handle because once you fail, the options are very simple... like, 'Try something different,' or, 'Maybe if you do the same thing, do it in a different way.'

A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.

Swarms are one very simple way of keeping ourselves ahead of the machines.

People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

The computer industry began with home-brew boxes that everyone had to program for themselves, but that was a huge hassle. The computer revolution didn't explode until the first Macintosh arrived, with its point-and-click simplicity.

Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of simplicity.

The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.

I like moments of staleness and mildew, simply because it creates the lane for change.

Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery.

Those who are nostalgic for traditional folkways have forgotten how hard our forebears fought to escape them.

Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over. Not to me. Not to them.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

The problem with friends and family is that they know us as we are. They are invested in maintaining us as we are. The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.