Quotes About Evolution

La lengua de la mariposa es una trompa enroscada como un muelle de reloj. Si hay una flor que la atrae, la desenrolla y la mete en el cáliz para chupar. Cuando lleváis el dedo humedecido a un tarro de azúcar, ¿a qué sentís ya el dulce en la boca como si la yema fuese la punta de la lengua? Pues así es la lengua de la mariposa.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

The old" corresponded to a social class, a bit like "the young" does today.

Over the course of time, their successive readings will question and enrich it. Thus the work will no longer belong to the author; he will be dispossessed of it.

lineage is only the normal marker of passing time.

In a word, a historical phenomenon can never be understood apart from its moment in time. This is true of ever evolutionary stage, our own and all others. As the old Arab proverb has it: 'Men resemble their times more than they do their fathers.

losses are necessary because we grow by losing and leaving and letting go."6

certainly, no one in the early days of container shipping foresaw that this American-born industry would come to be dominated by European and Asian firms, as the U.S.-flag ship lines, burdened by a legacy of protected markets and heavy regulation, proved unable to compete in a fast-changing world.

that everyday life with someone is the ground in which true intimacy grows. I don't think it has to create a boring rut. I believe it gives you a shot at reinventing life — the whole spectrum

welcoming the gradual evolution of passion into tenderness.

Si el niño que eras, conociera al hombre en que te has convertido ¿crees que se llevarían bien?

La mayor parte de los hombres se conforman con creer lo que ven. Algún día comprenderemos que el tiempo está en movimiento, que gira igual que la tierra y que no cesa de expandirse.

If you're good enough to survive, you're going to have to accept that down the road the game changes.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

We're really not that different from monkeys. What's the difference? Pants? What's the difference between grunting and "Oh, email.

I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.

At what stage such a man might start styling himself as 'king' must have varied from case to case.

from Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest, without being selective.

after 410, but that within a generation the villas and towns of Roman Britain had been almost completely abandoned.