Quotes About Evolution

A lot can change in a year.

He shook his head. "Love killed the dinosaurs, man.

And sometimes you are what's coming around.

From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before.

Darwin always thought that it paid to be a quick learner. The war had simply made the penalty for not learning quite a bit steeper.

Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great

Florida for Transition

You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day.

Un ordinateur portable est fondamentalement un bâton utilisé par un chimpanzé pour faire sortir les délicieuses fourmis hors d'un trou dans une bûche.

However grim the world, we are what we have evolved into.

You are where you are because that's where you need to be... and if you need to move on, you will move on.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

since the first edition of this book, much has changed in the world and in American education. And so, too, this book

To play for Manchester United in 1956 was not remotely of the same order of national prominence as to play for them half a century later. Not least because Taylor, Edwards, Viollet and the rest were on a basic wage of £15, with an appearance fee of £5 and a win bonus of £3.

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around...

We cannot change the history of the past.

O mais importante e bonito, do mundo, é isto: que as pessoas não estão sempre iguais, ainda não foram terminadas – mas que elas vão sempre mudando. (...) Natureza da gente não cabe em nenhuma certeza.

Tudo o que já foi, é o começo do que vai vir, toda a hora a gente está num cômpito.

A única esperança que nos resta é que estas contradições sejam uma questão de gerações. No futuro haveremos de parecer bem ridículos.

from On Keeping a Notebook]: It is a good idea to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about…I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not…Remember what it was to be me: that is always the point.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

In was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be better than what went out on the last. I no longer believe that, but I am telling you how it was.

When we lose that sense of the possible we lose it fast. One day we are absorbed by dressing well, following the news, keeping up, coping, what we might call staying alive; the next day we are not.

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change.