Quotes About Evolution

You expect things to change, or people to change; but it's silly, isn't it? Because people and things don't change. Not really. You just have to get used to them.

Richard Rivers has come into Briar like a spore of yeast into dough, changing it utterly.

rooms seemed changed. I took to

We emerged into human-hood walking in nature. Our human brain evolved because we got upright and walked. Our sentience and awareness – the stunning and special stuff that sets us apart in the animal kingdom – evolved to the rhythms of walking and in response to the patterns in nature we saw when we quit schlepping around on all fours and began looking upward. Hiking brings us back to our nature because hiking is how we know our nature.

There is death in stagnation. There is life in movement.

History is a relay of revolutions.

We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.

Some say it's no coincidence that the question mark is an inverted plow, breaking up the hard soil of old beliefs and preparing for the new growth.

Flowers are plant penises

I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over two hundred years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.

Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

The future never enters the present as a finished product, but that doesn't stop people from expecting it to arrive that way.

Without change and the occasional struggle, we can't learn or grow.

If you lead an active intellectual and emotional life, your ideas will grow with you.

If you want longevity, you can't just bet on tradition; you have to continually invest in the future.

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to go out the window is the notion of perfection.

There is nothing wrong with tradition until you want progress: progress demands change, and change demands a reevaluation of what the traditions are for and how they are practiced.

William Gibson famously wrote, "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed."1 But the past is unevenly distributed in the present too.

Toni Schneider used the term continuous deployment to describe the philosophy of endless small changes.

Technology does have an impact on behavior, but culture comes first.

When there is a healthy system for recognizing, responding to, and learning from mistakes, over time fewer of them tend to happen

The responsibility of people in power is to continually eliminate useless traditions and introduce valuable ones. An organization where nothing ever changes is not a workplace but a living museum.

Blank paper before me; fresh snow fall, tracks slowly appearing, my future mapped out, my life, my day. Minute by minute, laboriously, every nook, every cranny exposed. This is my true life, I think while wondering what became of the person I used to be.

lately I've been feeling like I've been mellowing out a bit and at those times my wife lovely reassures me by saying, no, you're still the same uptight bastard you've always been