Quotes About Evolution

When I first started out, I really felt like, 'I'm a journalist; I will be respected as a neutral observer.' And I don't feel like that holds true anymore. I don't think people respect journalists the same way they once did.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

The idea of the damsel in distress is fast becoming obsolete.

Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

In general, obsolete technology is obsolete for a reason. Monocles are no exception.

If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature.

If the computer-guided robots turn out to be our superiors in every respect, then will they not find that they can run the world better without the need of us at all? Humanity itself will then have become obsolete.

It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.

If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.

If you believe that movies are alive and talking back to you, there's a point at which it's very obvious they're not finished.

I'm never really just satisfied with where I'm at. I always just want to get better, improve more, learn as much as I can because obviously I have a lot to learn and a lot to get better at so it's all about improvement to me.

We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

Elevating baked eggs to exotic, spice-laden heights, Australians have come a long way since the days of only knowing Middle Eastern cuisine to be dried-out pucks of falafel, or the occasional late-night kebab.

Occasionally, you have to make adjustments and try different things.

I still tell a lot of jokes and do a lot of funny comics, but the stuff I like best is the personal stuff. I will still occasionally talk about my job and retail, but it evolved.

With 'J', at a deep base level, there is still some comedy, but that masculinist voice that had driven so many of my novels I suddenly did not want to occupy. I wasn't reneging on it; I just didn't want to do it.