Adaptive Change Quotes

#1. And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ... We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not.

Niles Eldredge

#2. The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that are engaged with them.

Andrew Lo

#3. The most abundant element in the Universe is stupidity

Frank Zappa

#4. I looked at you for two and a half years
I didn't see you.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#5. Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

Frantz Fanon

#6. Of course, accidents will happen in wild-folk families just as among us humans, only in a wild-folk family, an accident is more apt to be fatal.

Samuel Scoville Jr.

#7. I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.

Linda Dillow

#8. Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive?

Fred Emery

#9. It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated.

Kenneth I. Chenault

#10. Most people seem to think that organisms develop adaptive traits in response to environmental change. This is bullshit. The environment changes and those who already happen to have newly adaptive traits don't get wiped out.

Peter Watts

#11. But even if governments adjust their policies to a more individualistic age, the on-demand economy clearly imposes more risk on individuals. People will have to master multiple skills if they are to survive in such a world - and keep those skills up to date.

Anonymous

#12. I'm a learning machine and this is the place to learn.

Carmine Gallo

#13. I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gail Carriger

#14. To have a kind heart is everything

Marcel Proust

#15. Aspects of culture can also be described as vestigial, where once-adaptive cultural adaptations become maladaptive when environments change.

Anonymous

#16. The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

Henry Van Dyke

#17. When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and that is absolutely right. It's the rate of change that is the problem right now. It's changing so quickly that it exceeds the adaptive capacity of some species.

Michael Crimmins

#18. creativity isn't a luxury. It's the essence of life. It's what distinguishes us from the mush. And it's why our ancestors survived while other less adaptive critters perished. They responded to change by being creative in some way, by inventing a new answer to the chaos.

Danny Gregory

#19. You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?

Cinda Williams Chima

#20. Heartache makes
for good poetry,
heartburn
not so much.

S. Tarr

#21. You must listen!" the tiny monster squeaked. She grabbed it as it made to climb onto the dashboard, and then she shook it fiercely. "No!" she bellowed. "You must listen!

Karl Schroeder

#22. An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.

Curt Gowdy