Quotes About Evolution

Meat consumption is a part of our evolutionary heritage; meat production has been a major component of modern food systems. Carnivory should remain, within limits, an important component of a civilization that finally must learn how to maintain the integrity of its only biosphere.

Old, deeply engrained systems take time to change, but we can't leave it to time.

Any systems can always be made better.

The first cellular systems didn't become commercially available until 1983. Most of the phones before then were in fact car phones.

When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.

I know what I can bring to the table. I have done it all my career, but every team you need something different.

You can be forgotten very quickly. So I am aware that I need to stay current, keep connecting, and keep bringing things to the table... Otherwise, you can just disappear.

If you look at where the growth is happening - tablet growth compared to the traditional PC growth - you just can't compare them.

We didn't make the first mp3, smartphone, or tablet. But you can say we made the first modern mp3, smartphone, and tablet. And I think now we're making the first modern smartwatch.

How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong.

A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.

What I didn't foresee in 2005 was the rise of the post-PC, which are all these tablets now. These are the things that actually will probably be the end of the consoles.

I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.

Phones are a big deal, but tablets are an even bigger deal. So we're doing a lot of design work and experimentation around the tablet experience.

If you look back at when things like tablets and smartphones were first invented, or the Newton at Apple, that was the first attempt at VR. We didn't even have 3D GPUS, or were just getting them.

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and I'd say, 'I'm not a pop star! I want to be a respected musician!' But I think people have changed the way they think about it.

We've been going through a massive thought evolution and many taboos have been broken.

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.

There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.

There are so many ideas that I have in my mind, of projects that I would love to tackle, people I would love to work with, genres I would love to experiment with, and sounds that don't fit any of my previous projects that I need to find a home for.

My commitment, and my desire to win the ball or make a tackle, that will never change. But you grow up. I'm not 20 any more.

What we need to do is continue to learn to tackle better, continue to change the rules so we make it safer.