Quotes About Evolution

Replacing "progress" with "innovation" skirts the question of whether a novelty is an improvement: the world may not be getting better and better but our devices are getting newer and newer.

As the years passed, and Madison grew old, he observed how many other nations had followed the United States' lead and written their own constitutions: France, Haiti, Poland, the Netherlands, Switzerland. By 1820, at least sixty constitutions had been written in Europe alone; eighty more would be written by 1850. Very few of those constitutions lasted.18

The turn from reverence to inquiry, from mystery to history, was crucial to the founding of the United States.

To treat the founding documents as Scripture would be to become a slave to the past.

I've heard that men are like fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

The older they get, the better they get when they were younger

the more they evolved from monsters into angsty, sexy superheroes, the more the odds of a human being surviving an encounter with an angry vampire shrank to nothing.

Human things have long since jumped the shark.

The mood has changed. It's heavier. We were liquid; now we're stones.

agile development reflects a product lifecycle approach (continuous delivery of value), rather than a project approach (begin-end). While an individual release of a product can be managed as a project, an agile approach views a release as a single stage in a product's ongoing evolution.

Iterative development, when accompanied with reasonable end-of-iteration reviews—product, technical, process, team—is also self-correcting.

Adaptation can be considered a mindful response to change.

People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough (Buckingham and Coffman 1999).

Don't get stuck in the past. Celebrate the company's history (heritage), but focus primarily on the present and future (culture).

If you hate change, then you're really going to hate extinction.

The moment learning occurs, mankind progresses

Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Whatever good things we build end up building us

We are what circumstances make of us

Involuntary servitude was banned by the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, but nothing was done to confront the ideology of white supremacy. Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved.