Quotes About Evolution

What a fool I used to be (The truest words I ever wrote, and they get truer every day. )

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose...

technological change is not additive; it is ecological. A new technology does not merely add something; it changes everything".

Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

We might say that a technology is to a medium as the brain is to the mind.

There was a time when educators became famous for providing reasons for learning; now they become famous for inventing a method.

How does a culture change when new technologies are introduced to it? And is it always desirable for a culture to accommodate itself to the demands of new technologies?

But the telegraph demands that we burn its contents.

Disaffection, once begun, acquires a momentum of its own

OSCAR. Don't you know what's happening to the old gang? It's breaking up. Everyone's getting divorced....I swear, we used to have better games when we couldn't get out at night.

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream

Piracy is the new radio.

I'd rather keep changing and lose people along the way. If that's the price, I'll pay it.

The past is always judged by the present.

Years had passed, but we were still arguing about the same stuff. These patterns repeat themselves, with parents and children—that's another reason I went to India. If I was going to have a family, I wanted it to be totally different from the one I'd had.

Children always grow faster than their parents' image of them.

Evolutionary biologists now reckon that the six to seven billion people now living share the same small number of ancestors living two or three thousand years ago. These circumstances make nonsense of anybody's pretensions to find a pure racial ancestry.

Lesson learned? Essential lesson learned! You can erase what you draw, even what you've spent a long time drawing and sweating over it. You can throw away what you paint and, as I learned to do later, cut it up and incorporate it into a new painting. A lesson to take straight to heart, and not only in art making.

There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.