Quotes About Evolution

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

The Holy Roman Empire was now the German Empire. And,

Almost everything we know about good software architecture has to do with making software easy to change

One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.

Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.

It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they feel the black cold of chaos.

You cannot step twice into the same river, said Herakleitos. People in the past were not just like us; to pretend so is an evasion and a betrayal, turning our back on them so as to be easy among familiar things.

All these years you have made a boy of him. But with me, he shall be a man

Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

What a child knows about transformation is very little. What an adult knows, I think, is even less. Because a child at least remembers that transformation is possible.

Step One is, paradoxically, both a crushing end and a beginning.

Art is a process, not a product.

WE WERE NEVER BORN TO READ. HUMAN BEINGS invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we rearranged the very organization of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think, which altered the intellectual evolution of our species.

The end of reading development doesn't exist; the unending story of reading moves ever forward, leaving the eye, the tongue, the word, the author for a new place from which the "truth breaks forth, fresh and green," changing the brain and the reader every time.

Less happily, however, we are beginning to observe the direct and indirect influence of the digital word-spotting, text-grazing reading patterns of contemporary readers—how things are read—on how texts are being written. When publishers are forced to consider the needs

We seem to be moving as a society from a group of expert readers with uniquely personal, internal platforms of background knowledge to a group of expert readers who are increasingly dependent on similar, external servers of knowledge. I want to understand the consequences and costs of losing these uniquely formed internal sources of knowledge without losing sight of the extraordinary gifts of the abundant information now at our fingertips.

The starting point for improvement is to recognize the need.

Kaizen is everyday improvement, everybody improvement, everywhere improvement.

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

The environment and circumstances given to you now constitute the world you have long depicted in your mind and heart; they represent an evolution of the world you have envisioned. People often think that other people and the society are to blame for every event that takes place around them, but that is not the case. Every event that evolves around you is made from the vibrations of your thought.