Quotes About Evolution

This is often the way one moves into the future. For what you begin to see, there is no ready language. If you were to remain silent, listen, perhaps in response you might be able to move in a new way. Glide into it slowly, aware of every slight difference, skin and cells intelligent, reading. But trained as you are in certain regimens, chances are you proceed directly according to the old patterns, trying again what was tried before.

If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.

Old contradictions never die; they just get new outfits.

Life is about shifting the balance in favor of change, and try as we might to hold on forever to the best of moments, it's simply impossible.

It's funny how life can change so suddenly when you're least expecting it.

A pencil is an extension of a finger writing in the sand. But our electronic media are extensions of our brains.

We do not become different people as we age; we just add layers of experience onto who we already are.

Sooner or later she will learn time changes everything, takes everything: sometimes in a blink, and sometimes so slowly you can't even see it happening.

sometimes in a blink, and sometimes so slowly you can't even see it happening.

When people are thrown into the abyss and together find their way out of it, they are not the same people.

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.

It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

The ban against tall buildings was finally lifted in 1957. Nothing much happened at first; downtown remained stunted compared to most other cities of its size. As developer Robert Maguire put it, Los Angeles seemed destined to be a city "just ten stories high, all over hell and gone.

In a sense, then, the number of orchid species on the planet is uncountable because it is constantly changing.

Los Angeles seemed to always be moving toward the eternal future; it was a city that shed memories before they had a chance to stick.

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This was in the early 1990s, the moment when Internet service providers were introduced to the general public, and for the first time in history, the status of libraries as the only and best storehouses of information was challenged. Szabo received his library degree just as people were beginning to wonder whether libraries were viable or even necessary in the newly wired world.

He kept repeating the story, adjusting it a touch each time, as if he were a tailor working on a jacket, taking in a bit of fabric here, letting out a seam there, then stepping back to consider what fit what best.

Libraries may embody our notion of permanence, but their patrons are always in flux. In truth, a library is as much a portal as it is a place—it is a transit point, a passage.

Take it slow, little by little. Remember, every small step you take now is adding to bigger change later. Change builds exponentially, with increasing momentum, multiplying on itself.

In the long term, the tables may turn on humans, and the problem may not be what we could do to harm AIs, but what AI might do to harm us.