Quotes About Evolution

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising.

I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it must move on, and it must live and breathe, and continue to grow, and continue to change, and continue to mesh with other music - all that kind of stuff. Jazz can be on the playground too, you know.

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.

It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.

The smartphone killed the traditional camera industry because it subsumed all the functions of a traditional camera.

With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customise and implement the system, and our job would be over. Some companies are changing and asking why do they need to own the HR system when they can connect to an Internet service and pay as you go?

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere.

I think the thought of a traditional family home is awesome. Traditional roles are becoming a thing of the past, but I think there is something really charming about them.

Before, back in the '50s, women didn't have as many rights as men, so they had to be that stay-at-home wife and take care of the kids all day. But now, with marriage, it's a partnership. It's not like this old traditional marriage that it once was.

I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.

By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.

What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction.

I think traditions change and modify with each generation. With new members joining the family, their customs and traditions have to be respected and combined with the exiting traditions. And the children that follow are part of that new evolving tradition and, as they grow, will have input that will, in turn, continue to evolve that tradition.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.