Quotes About Evolution

I try to remember if the past was exactly like this. I'm not sure, now. I know it contained these things, but somehow the mix is different. A movie about the past is not the same as the past.

while he himself puts them on, like a sock over a foot, onto the stub of himself, his extra, sensitive thumb, his tentacle, his delicate, stalked slug's eye, which extrudes, expands, winces, and shrivels back into himself when touched wrongly, grows big again, bulging a little at the tip, traveling forward as if along a leaf, into them, avid for vision.

but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

With you I could have more than one skin, a blank interior, a repertoire of untold stories, a fresh beginning.

How little time it takes to change a face: carve it like wood, harden it.

Think of an adaptation, any adaptation, and some animal somewhere will have thought of it first.

Maybe the human species has evolved too far, maybe we all move around too much, too pointlessly, and consciousness will implode upon itself.

La posibilidad de librar una guerra y la evolución de la sociedad humana forman parte del mismo relato.

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

She was seeing things with new eyes for, somewhere along the long road to Tara, she had left her girlhood behind her. She was no longer plastic clay, yielding imprint to each new experience. The clay had hardened, some time in this indeterminate day which had lasted a thousand years. Tonight was the last time she would ever be ministered to as a child. She was a woman now and youth was gone.

first, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

We're changing the world with technology.

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

Ethics change with technology.

By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.

A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.