Quotes About Evolution

No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo.

The markets were now run by technology, but the technologists were still treated like tools. Nobody bothered to explain the business to them, but they were forced to adapt to its demands and exposed to its failures—which was, perhaps, why there had been so many more conspicuous failures.

His life was dedicated to the fine art of tearing down and building anew.

Moore's law came with a social corollary: high-tech could not remain high-tech for long.

For a technology company to succeed, he argued, it needed always to be looking to destroy itself. If it didn't, someone else would.

The game of football evolved and here was one cause of its evolution, a new kind of athlete doing a new kind o

By his fourth pro season Taylor was not just feeding

The new companies often put the old ones out of business; the young were forever eating the old. The whole of the Valley was a speeded-up Oedipal drama. In this drama technology played a very clear role. It was the murder weapon.

People no longer are responsible for what happens in the market, because computers make all the decisions. And in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

It was clear what had happened," he later said. "This company started out with great ambitions, and then the ambition got smaller and smaller. I just took it back to Jim's original vision.

The game of football evolved and here was one cause of its evolution, a new kind of athlete doing a new kind of

Progress does not march forward like an army on parade; it crawls on its belly like a guerrilla.

The markets were now run by technology, but the technologists were still treated like tools. Nobody bothered to explain the business to them, but they were forced to adapt to its demands and exposed to its failures—which

Everything you've done, everything you've seen, everything you've become, remains. You never can go back, only forward, and if you don't bring the whole of yourself with you, you'll never see the sun again.

You can never go back, only forward. I read that in a book once.

handles. One handle represents the nature of your business today, the other represents

We live in a world where many kinds of regression dignify themselves with the mantle of progress.

a society dedicated solely to the preservation of her past, soon has only her past to sell.

Then he began to speak. "Golf recapitulates evolution," he said in a melodious voice, "it is a microcosm of the world, a projection of all our hopes and fears.

As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves.

Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus disappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candaules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn.

After that month in Cairo she was muted, read constantly, kept more to herself, as if something had occurred or she realized suddenly that wondrous thing about the human being, it can change. She did not have to remain a socialite who had married an adventurer. She was discovering herself. It was painful to watch, because Clifton could not see it, her self-education.

how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the place where it first existed, some repositioning unknown to us.

I was about to enter a borderless terrain between adolescence and adulthood