Quotes About Evolution

Every API writer needs to have an evolution plan; that is, to know on a strategic level what will happen to the API in future releases.

For the sake of future evolution, it's better to disallow subclassing.

The path of evolution depends on the type of interface: additions to an API are acceptable, while removing functionality is not. In SPIs removals are allowed, while additions are not.

When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.

From an evolutionary perspective, we first developed a survival brain (called the reptilian system), then an emotional brain (the limbic system), and finally a thinking brain (the neocortex).

Desire and passion can't live forever. Feelings change just as you change, as you grow older.

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

He had always found this a comforting thought, that the age of barbarism was not long past, that if humans failed to be kind it was because they were still children, historically speaking

You don't create a culture. It happens. This is why new companies don't have a culture. Culture is the by-product of consistent behavior.

When someone copies you, they are copying a moment in time. They don't know the thinking that went into getting you to that moment in time, and they won't know the thinking that'll help you have a million more moments in time. They're stuck with what you left behind.

We've frequently been trapped by things that used to work well but no longer do.

In thirty years' time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed. —RICHARD BRANSON, FOUNDER OF VIRGIN GROUP

If you want to make a product better, you have to keep tweaking, revising, and iterating. The same thing is true with a company.

new customers today expect something different than new customers did a decade ago.

When you let customers outgrow you, you'll most likely wind up with a product that's basic—and that's fine. Small, simple, basic needs are constant. There's an endless supply of customers who need exactly that.

Sometimes you need to say, "We're going in a new direction because that's what makes sense today.

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It's easy to shoot down good ideas, interesting policies, or worthwhile experiments by assuming that whatever you decide now needs to work for years on end. It's just not so, especially for a small business. If circumstances change, your decisions can change. Decisions are temporary.

Most work is not coming up with The Next Big Thing. Rather, it's making better the thing you already thought of six months—or six years—ago. It's the work of work.

You don't have to live with a decision forever. If you make a mistake, you can correct it later.

If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse. —HENRY FORD

Evolution doesn't linger on past failures, it's always building upon what worked. So should you.

Artificial culture is paint. Real culture is patina.

trophy room. "This room is on the site where my grandmother spent her very first night here," Stax said. "That was just a hole hacked out of the hillside. Grandmother didn't even have a bed. She huddled inside all night, listening to monsters howl on the other side of a dirt wall. And look at it