Quotes About Evolution

I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.

My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'

Strangely enough, I've become a Metallica fan.

I've been no stranger to change.

You can't stop people watching on mobiles, but I hope the old fashioned idea of sitting in a dark room with a big screen with a group of strangers lives on forever.

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.

Every organization goes through a lifecycle where they eventually lose their initial speed or agility at a strategic level.

We can determine our strategic part or strategic options, but the strategic framework is something which will evolve from the interaction of world powers with each other.

Ford had a number of different strategies over the years that they thought obviously made sense at the time, just like all the different brands, and also the regional operations.

Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. … It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year. Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans.

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.

The evolutionary algorithm--of variation and selection, repeated--searches for solutions in a world where the problems keep changing, trying all sorts of variants and doing more of what works.

The Most successful industry of the last forty years has been built on failure after failure after failure.

There is no end to learning, but there are many beginnings……

They could draw many parallels between dolphins and Xenomorphs.

That's progress," McIlveen said. "What we think of as progress," she countered. "To the Yautja, we're barely crawling. Sometimes I think we're like deer and they're the lions, coming into the Sphere from time to time to just play." She blew onto her coffee, watching the small ripples and the drifting steam. "The things they've seen.

I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.

I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.

My final slide quoted the words of biologist Louis Agassiz: 'Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

anyone can download and use the code, and new projects migrate from the edges to the center as a

In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example: Web 1.0 Web 2.0 DoubleClick --> Google AdSense Ofoto --> Flickr

We need to start seeing Moore's Law apply to healthcare," I said. "What's Moore's Law?" the senator asked. "You have to understand, Senator," Reid interjected, "that in Washington, you assume that every year things cost more and do less. In Silicon Valley, everyone expects our products to cost less every year but do more.