Quotes About Evolution

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Technology is anything invented after you were born.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Most people have managed to get by without being educated…because, in order to make education more user-friendly, they managed to forget about the changes in people's brains that are supposed to happen.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.

Auden turns to his guest and asks: "Do you know the frightening thing about the dandelions?" The guest, bracing himself for a riddle, confesses that he doesn't. Auden says: "The dandelions originally were sexual plants. We don't know when, but in the course of evolution they gave it up. They go on, though, with the same genes.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

Humans are exempt from biology.

Evolution stops at the neck.

La adaptabilidad es la clave del más apto, y la extinción de una especie representa la evolución de otra.

aunque obviamente los humanos hemos sobrevivido a cualquier virus o meteorito que la naturaleza nos ha lanzado hasta ahora, la tecnología es algo que nosotros nos lanzamos a nosotros mismos por nuestra cuenta y riesgo.

Al igual que nuestro pariente el chimpancé, siempre nos hemos matado unos a otros para disputarnos el territorio y las hembras, pero con el advenimiento de la esclavitud nos redujimos a nosotros mismos a algo nuevo: a un cultivo de exportación.

Ha entrado en escena el Homo sedentarius. Ahora es el alimento el que migra hacia nosotros, junto con artículos de lujo y otros bienes de consumo que no existieron durante la mayor parte de la historia humana.

Today's amount of plastic will take hundreds of thousands of years to consume, but, eventually, it will all biodegrade. Lignin is far more complex, and it biodegrades. It's just a matter of waiting for evolution to catch up with the materials we are making.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

Soon I'll grow up, and I won't even flinch at your name.

the present is intelligible only as a commentary upon and response to the past in which the past, if necessary and if possible, is corrected and transcended

Modern places are made up of layers of incomplete visions of the future, and the result is a permanent state of impermanence.

In a fully discovered world exploration does not stop; it just has to be reinvented.

And there is but a step from a she-ass to a woman.

I thought we were better then this." "We're human. Be thankful we've moved on from clubbing each other's brains out every five minutes.

Only an evolutionary eyeblink separated Kanu from the savannah, and that was just as true for the Risen. Their minds might be fixed on the stars, but their bodies were only a footstep from the dust and heat of Amboseli.