Quotes About Evolution

The world hasn't noticed, but R&B has shifted. It's changing course.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera.

It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my notion of what success meant to evolve over time. I've always had a day job and never been just acting. But it didn't make me feel like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing.

In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of evolution.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

If you look back at Disney's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' or 'Pocahontas,' animated films were trying to get more and more real before CG really arrived.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

It's very lucky when you have an artist - whether it's a novelist or a filmmaker or a singer - whose career you can follow from the beginning and feel that you are in some way part of it, or part of the same world that it comes out of.

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer.

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.

Every now and then a little bit of change never hurts.

I prefer to listen to people who change their mind now and then.