Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.
Interpretation
Embrace change to survive; those who resist it will fail.
This quote emphasizes the critical importance of adaptability in the face of new challenges and circumstances. It suggests that in a rapidly changing world, those who refuse to engage with new ideas and situations will ultimately be left behind, highlighting the necessity to evolve and grow in order to thrive.
In practice
In a corporate meeting discussing future strategy, this quote could highlight the need for innovation.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country. So I decided to move home to Ohio.
The whole Lower Ninth Ward hasn't really recovered, but I feel a good spirit in my heart that something is going on - music is coming back slowly.
The full horror of what has happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming clearer. It is hard even to contemplate the utter carnage and terror which has engulfed so many innocent people. We've offered President Bush and the American people our solidarity, our profound sympathy, and our prayers. But it is plain that citizens of many countries round the world, including Britain, will have been caught up in this terror.
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.
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