Quotes About Evolution

Just Because You Have Feathers …

The choice of the word "progress" is deliberate. It represents movement toward a goal or aspiration.

if new technologies enable new market applications to emerge, the introduction of new technology may not be inherently cannibalistic.

The basis of product choice often evolves from functionality to reliability, then to convenience, and, ultimately, to price.

In reality, spinning out is an appropriate step only when confronting disruptive innovation.

Research has shown, in fact, that the vast majority of successful new business ventures abandoned their original business strategies when they began implementing their initial plans and learned what would and would not work in the market. 9

it means that disruptive technologies that may underperform today, relative to what users in the market demand, may be fully performance-competitive in that same market tomorrow.

Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo. . . .

And that day the cultural god of science had shone a bit less brightly, had died a little in the people's minds.

If Man had taken a different path, might, he not, in time to come, have been as great as Dog?

The once all-important thing had been buried by more than fifty years of other all-important matters.

They knew a lot, the dead. How many times had she said to Harry they were the world's greatest untapped resource? It was true. All they'd seen, all they'd suffered, all they'd triumphed over—lost to a world in need of wisdom. And why? Because at a certain point in the evolution of the species a profound superstition was sewn into the human heart that the dead were to be considered sources of terror rather than enlightenment.

And to think, she'd once had the hots for him, back in the old days (six months ago) when razor-thin men with noses like Durante and an encyclopaedic knowledge of de Niro movies had really been her style. Now she saw him for what he was, flotsam from a lost ship of hope. Still a pill-freak, still a theoretical bisexual, still devoted to early Polanski movies and symbolic pacifism.

The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes.

What I do know is that I have never found clowns remotely funny. I am not alone in this, I think. More people find clowns disturbing or distressing rather than raucously amusing. Is it that the nature of human existence has changed so radically in the last century or so that what was funny to our grandparents and great-grandparents is now tragic or terrifying?

Dream! Forge yourself and rise Out of your mind and into others. Men, be women. Fish, be flies. Girls, take beards. Sons, be your mothers. The future of the world now lies In coral wombs behind our eyes.

Somos nuestros propios cementerios; nos instalamos entre las tumbas de las personas que éramos.

A snake can shed its skin but it still remains a snake.

Man is an animal who is trying to evolve into a god. Many of his problems are an inevitable result of this struggle.

And the ape and the man exist in one body; and when the ape's desires are about to be fulfilled, he disappears and is succeeded by the man, who is disgusted with the ape's appetite.

it is only the species Homo sapiens that is played out. 'The stars in their courses have turned against him and he has to give place to some other animal better adapted to face the fate that closes in on mankind.' In the final pages of the pamphlet, his trump of the last judgement has changed into the question: Can civilization be saved?

Culture is always on the move.

The world, Left Coasters insisted, can be easily and frequently reinvented.

Somewhere along the way, she'd ceased being Miss Stoker and had become Evaline. Not quite a friend, but no longer a stranger.