Quotes About Evolution

all great achievements carry the seeds of their ossification.

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

spinning playback head n. the disorienting feeling of meeting back up with an old friend and realizing that you've become different people on divergent paths-that even though they're standing right in front of you, the person you once knew isn't really there anymore.

Maybe your self-mythology is no different than any other mythology. It's a story that changes in the telling, evolving over time. Whatever resonates will stay, and what doesn't will fall away. To pick away at the literal truth is to miss the point of it, miss the joy of it. So go ahead and build your myth. Try to tell a good story about yourself that captures something true, whether or not the facts agree.

The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

London created the Underground, and the Underground created London.

The whole country is a Franciscan monastery compared to Hong Kong. It is like a fusty family firm where the paterfamilias died years ago and they have carried on doing everything in exactly the same way, except somebody installed a 1924 cash register a year or so ago, and since then everybody has been congratulating themselves on how up to date they are. Money is a typhoon, and Britain has so far felt only its first faint breath.

It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually a stranger to the place you lived in. The woman priest with jogging clothes and a BlackBerry gave Mary a glimpse of what life must have been like for her mother as she grew older.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

The dream is over…I was the DreamweaverBut now I'm rebornI was the WalrusBut now I'm John.

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

The original Marx quote (rough) History repeats twice, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. The addition by Leonard; Technology repeats twice, the first time as farce, and the second as tragedy

Our only security is our ability to change.

Time sneaks up on you like a wind shield on a bug.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux that nothing remains long in the same state.

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists...The result, unlike the clean straight lines of logic, is often irregular, messy.

biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process.

I feel that my best work is ahead of me. I am embarrassed to look at my earlier writing now.

Failure's a natural part of life.

When personal computing finally blossomed in Silicon Valley in the mid-seventies, it did so largely without the benefit of any of the history and the research that had gone before it.

There was an abyss between the original work done by Engelbart's group in the sixties and the motley crew of hobbyists that would create the personal-computer industry beginning in 1975.