Quotes About Evolution

We started the band when I was about 19 or 20. At that age, it would have been kind of hard to imagine a lot of the stuff that I've written. We were playing garage rock. I wanted to dash out three chords and scream. But if you do that for 20 years, what's the point?

It's not like you are going to see a new me already against Gary Sykes, but you will see a lot more of what I'm capable of.

The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

You've got to do a lot of research. That's the biggest thing: I try to gather as much information as I can to maximize myself. Because if you're just standing still, you're going to be a dinosaur and everyone else will go around you. That's like my biggest fear.

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

We grew up with a different gauge on what pop is. Pop for us was INXS and John Farnham.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

I'm not good at updating gear.

I fought when you couldn't even buy MMA gear at your local sports store or whatever. We had to make it ourselves.

If you go back and look at the early promos for Gears 1, you'll see just how different the characters were from the actual first game, both in appearance and background. And it's an evolutionary process.

If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.

What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they're not absolutes anymore.

I thought having to explain the risibility of gender codes would be mostly behind us by now.

To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.

I think that drummers have come a long way, but they haven't forgotten players like Gene Krupa, or the other jazz players.

I want to say, to Mr. Gene Simmons, hip-hop is here forever. Get used to it.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

Brainfeeder makes me want to keep generating better music.

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.