Quotes About Evolution

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Arriva un momento – pinsò – nel quale t'adduni, t'accorgi che la tua vita è cangiata. Ma quando è successo? – ti domandi. E non trovi risposta, fatti impercettibili si sono accumulati fino a determinare la svolta. O macari fatti ben visibili, di cui però non hai calcolato la portata, le conseguenze. Spii e rispii, ma la risposta a quel «quando» non la sai trovare. Come se avesse importanza, poi!

In discussing the so-called biological origins of male dominance, the boys can afford to compare themselves to baboons and insects: they are writing books or teaching in universities when they do it. A Harvard professor does not refuse tenure because a baboon has never been granted it.

change requires destruction, whether or not you value the destroyed.

The power of natural selection is beyond dispute, but this power has limits. Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. And calling the change that creates them random is just another way of admitting our ignorance about it.

This is one of nature's lessons for innovable technologies: If we want to open nature's black box of innovation, Ockham's razor is much too dull. Like oil and water, simplicity and innovability don't mix.

A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. The only thing that matters is that he should't become 'stuck' in childishness

the racetrack results go through phases when certain methods succeed and certain methods fail.

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

tall oaks from little acorns grow.

The line between the 'mechanical' and the 'intelligent' was very, very slightly blurred.

Rather than construction, software is more like gardening—it is more organic than concrete. You plant many things in a garden according to an initial plan and conditions. Some thrive, others are destined to end up as compost.

Over the years, you'll be amazed at how your experience has blossomed and your skills have grown.

Learning is a continuous and ongoing process.

Always take small, deliberate steps, checking for feedback and adjusting before proceeding

All software becomes legacy as soon as it's written.

expiring assets.[3] Your knowledge becomes out of date as new techniques, languages, and environments are developed.

Well, software doesn't quite work that way. Rather than construction, software is more like gardening—it is more organic than concrete. You plant many things in a garden according to an initial plan and conditions. Some thrive, others are destined to end up as compost.

Like the craftsman, expect to add to your toolbox regularly. Always be on the lookout for better ways of doing things.

knowledge isn't stable. It changes—often rapidly.

One's skill is never complete, one's knowledge is forever lacking, one's taste is invariably altered, one's opinion ever subject to controversy. There is a complete and constant urge towards improvement.

The only constant we have is change.

The garden was planted four hundred years ago, when the surrounding area was poplar. The woman makes a sweeping gesture, and he nods in appreciation. And now, Less says, it's unpoplar.

I understand that it wasn't that you didnt want to be with me anymore, but you didn't want to be yourself anymore, the one you were with me.