Quotes About Evolution

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

I thought it was endearing when we first got together. By the end I wanted to stab him in the hand every time he dismissed my cursing as an uncreative vocabulary. I think being able to use one little four letter word to convey a hundred different thoughts is pretty fucking creative.

Je ne crois pas qu'avoir étudié soit une si grande chose si l'on n'étudie plus. »

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

They say that a director always makes the same film. I try to make, as François Truffaut said, the next film in opposition to the one that came before. I'm not sure if I succeed. To put it another way, I agree with the auteur theory, but I don't consider myself an auteur. I'm more of an artisan, a craftsman.

The writer must proudly consent to bear his own date, knowing that there are no masterpieces in eternity, but only works in history, and that they survive only to the degree that they have left the past behind them and heralded the future.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do. And if we don't grow, we decay. It's that simple. Nothing in our universe is static.

Pam: I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems. Maybe I smile too much. Maybe I wear too much pink. But please remember I can rip your throat out if I need to. And also know that I am not a hooker. That was a long, long time ago.

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another

You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.

Our history is not our destiny.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

Sometimes the worst thing about change is the shock of the change itself and not actually the new circumstances.

because of Tommy Darling, genetically and through his legacy, I embrace change, I never take anything for granted, and I never forget how lucky I have been, and am.

life is not a technological ladder, it is more of a cultural wheel.

This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." All in Churchill's deep, rumbling, and fiercely inspiring voice.

Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.

A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension. —Oliver Wendell Holmes

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.