Evolved Quotes

#1. If the web can be evolved to include the missing APIs and have better performance, [developers] won't need to go beyond the web.

Brendan Eich

#2. My premise is that there's something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolved from caves and clans and tribes, and therefore, we as a species care more about the things that are local to us than we care about the things that are 'over there' from us.

Chris Milk

#3. I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing.

Al Jourgensen

#4. In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy; it's never forced. It is a natural evolutionary process of an evolved being.

Frederick Lenz

#5. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.

Damian Marley

#6. Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

Charles Lindbergh

#7. The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe.

Leonard Susskind

#8. The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#9. These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.

Robert Gilpin

#10. The complex organic device that creates and thereafter drives consciousness, is the human brain. Consciousness evolved hand in hand with the evolution of the human brain throughout a time span of six million years.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Robert Collier

#12. Yangi, a philosopher, art historian and poet, had evolved a theory of why some objects - pots, baskets, cloth made by unknown craftsmen - were so beautiful. In his view, they expressed unconscious beauty because they had been made in such numbers that the craftsman had been liberated from his ego.

Edmund De Waal

#13. As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.

John Olver

#14. Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

John Galsworthy

#16. If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.

Jane Wagner

#17. We evolved without social welfare and we are equipped to solve our problems without it.

James Cook

#18. physical space has for a century been used to facilitate and enforce efficiency and specialization. Along with factory assembly lines, the architectural frames of white-collar work have evolved to maximize efficiency.

Stanley McChrystal

#19. The universe evolved from something and nothing, and has most of these elemental dualpair until now.

Joey Lawsin

#20. In the beginning it wasn't bodybuilding competition that motivated me, it was just getting muscles and getting big. And certainly it has evolved for me since then. I think I'm still evolving.

Kai Greene

#21. We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that more then 98 percent of our genes are shared with the chimpanzee, but we feel the kinship directly when the furry baby puts up its arms to be held.

Alison Jolly

#22. Should we add the 40 to 50 million victims of the 1918 influenza pandemic to the 15 million who were killed in World War I, because the flu virus would not have evolved its virulence if the war hadn't packed so many troops into trenches?

Steven Pinker

#23. No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.

Thomas Sowell

#24. Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn't even fly for years in the original comic books. Kryptonite wasn't added until the '60s. All sorts of things like this. If a character is going to remain vital, he does have to change with the times.

David S.Goyer

#25. It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound ... Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and ... all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors.

David M. Raup

#26. I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.

Hilary Duff

#27. Hip hop in its purest form has evolved, inspired, educated and created a lucrative independent revenue stream for what was once a poverty-stricken, hopeless class of artists.

Carlos Wallace

#28. Knowing something about the deep origins of humanity only adds to the remarkable fact of our existence: all of our extraordinary capabilities arose from basic components that evolved in ancient fish and other creatures.

Neil Shubin

#29. Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.

Denis Dutton

#30. I certainly don't think I'm deserving of taking up space forever as a human. There's a whole generation of people yet to be born that are going to be so much more evolved than I am. I don't want to take up space. They're going to be better equipped to make the world a better place than I am.

Ashton Kutcher

#31. Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#32. I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music.

Patti Smith

#33. Language is not, as we are led to suppose by the dictionary, the invention of academicians or philologists. Rather, it has been evolved through time ... by peasants, by fishermen, by hunters, by riders.

Jorge Luis Borges

#34. We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we will then be some of the gentlest creatures that ever evolved.

Tom Althouse

#35. Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

Shulamith Firestone

#36. Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.

William H. Calvin

#37. Ayn Rand brings the best and the worst animal instinct out in humans. Well, excuse me, I aspire to be further evolved ethically than that. I really believe that Ayn Rand is the Marilyn Monroe of philosophy--all seduction, little substance.

John Stuart

#38. It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.

Tim LaHaye

#39. I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn't a plan.

Zoe Kravitz

#40. But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#41. Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

Simon Conway Morris

#42. I have grown up watching Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan and the likes. These are actors who have changed with time. They have no shelf-life. They have immortalised themselves because they have evolved with time.

Arjun Rampal

#43. Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms.

Frederick Lenz

#44. Madness is a wholly human malady borne in a brain too evolved - or not quite evolved enough - to bear the awful burden of its own existence.

Rick Yancey

#45. There was a time when I could only relate to happy works. With time, my taste has evolved.

Tina Ambani

#46. Most good novelists have been women or homosexuals. The novel is the triumphant evolved creation, one increasingly has to think, of these two groups, who have cooperated more closely in this domain than in any other.

Nicholson Baker

#47. What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

Karl Lagerfeld

#48. She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

Virginia Woolf

#49. Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#50. In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.

Joe Sabia

#51. The players today reflect how much the game has evolved and changed both in style and culture. The game now has a wider appeal to a larger market.

Michael Jordan

#52. Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.

Henry Petroski

#53. All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

#54. The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Leon Kass

#55. People who label erotica writers as sluts/men-whores remind me of the mob that once condemned smart women as witches. Mankind has not evolved much.

Anna Bayes

#56. Manipulators are very evolved. Energy is food. Forget good and bad. Is the coyote bad and the rabbit good?

Frederick Lenz

#57. They never got you, don't you know that? You irritating, charming, stubborn, evolved, intolerable, sweet, complex, caring, melodramatic bastard with your heart of gold. They never got you. You're wholly you, and you're perfect.

Dianna Hardy

#58. Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories and feel them in our heart. Your life is the most powerful story you can tell.

Martha Beck

#59. To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.

Pierre-Paul Grasse

#60. I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is narrative, after all, but a kind of super-language, where stories, like words, are ways of encapsulating information?

Alex Epstein

#61. I've evolved enough that I've learned to not subject others to the fallout of my own unhappiness. I think that's a significant, hard-won behavioral leap that, sadly, a staggering percent of the population of folks I know haven't quite mastered.

Keith Murray

#62. Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#63. It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time-now, too, I suppose-actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.

Gore Vidal

#64. All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

Alice Hegan Rice

#65. Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.

David Mamet

#66. My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

John Oates

#67. Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

Susan Sontag

#68. Operant conditioning is not confined to deliberate training; it is one way that cats learn how to deal with whatever surroundings they find themselves in. Cats have not (yet) evolved to live in apartments; their instinctive behavior is still tuned to hunting in the open air.

John Bradshaw

#69. The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.

Robin Marantz Henig

#70. If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

Steven Wright

#71. Atlantean medicine was evolved to heal, since healing is oneness.

Frederick Lenz

#72. The emergence of the independent hip-hop scene has replaced what we called the "underground scene". It's what the underground scene has evolved into: actual businesses.

El-P

#73. Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen has become, to a certain degree, institutionalized.

Frederick Lenz

#74. The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.

Frederick Lenz

#75. The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery. Because we never dealt with that evil, I don't think slavery ended in 1865, it just evolved.

Bryan Stevenson

#76. For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#77. At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.

Leon Bourgeois

#78. After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.

Darynda Jones

#79. Two of the most powerful of these power places are located in the Boston and Los Angeles areas. Highly evolved souls tend to be drawn to these areas because it's easier for them to increase their awareness there.

Frederick Lenz

#80. take reason out of the interactive context in which it evolved, and nothing guarantees that it will yield adaptive results.

Hugo Mercier

#81. You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#82. One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward

Gay Hendricks

#83. The greatest biodiversity of an species is typically found in the place where it first evolved
where nature first experimented white all the possibilities what an apple, or a potato or peach, could be.

Michael Pollan

#84. How is it that human anatomy evolved so
that something as stupid-looking as a repetitive back-and-forth movement can generate the peak of physical ecstasy?

Daria Snadowsky

#85. You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

Tim Harford

#86. I ... am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light ... in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.

Bill Hicks

#87. Is impossible to specify what [consciousness] is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.

Stuart Sutherland

#88. The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.

Eric Ries

#89. About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Howie Carr

#90. Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.

Thomas Huxley

#91. I think the idea that television has evolved to this place of real thematic richness and the fact that you no longer have to get 10 million people to watch your show in order to propagate its survival are the best things that have ever happened to storytelling in this medium.

Damon Lindelof

#92. We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans.

Craig Venter

#93. Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.

Tom Wolfe

#94. Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.

Jonathan Haidt

#95. We haven't evolved in our understanding about spirituality or gained more knowledge about it. What we've done was create more organizations based on the exact same principles, so that everyone can be happy and worship or not whoever they want, while interpreting the same words in their own way.

Daniel Marques

#96. Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.

Ray Kurzweil

#97. The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.

Paul Shepard

#98. unreasonable.' She felt like saying it was barking mad but restrained herself. 'Aahh, not quite ready yet. Not quite evolved enough. But you're getting there, Judith. You have taken the first tentative steps. The fact that you came to me proves that. You'll be back.' Sheeva jumped up from the

Patricia Scanlan

#99. has not evolved enough

Pat Conroy

#100. I cannot believe that any religion has been revealed to Man by God. Because a revealed religion would be perfect but no known religion is perfect; and because history and science show us that known religions have not been revealed but have been evolved from other traditions.

Robert Blatchford