Quotes about Adaptation

A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

There was no use grieving over what might have been.

You have to keep asking yourself if the way you're working today is the way you'd want to work in 10, 20, or 30 years. If not, now is the time to make a change, not "later.

We've frequently been trapped by things that used to work well but no longer do.

You'll often hear that people don't like change, but that's not quite right. People have no problem with change they asked for. What people don't like is forced change—change they didn't request on a timeline they didn't choose. Your "new and improved" can easily become their "what the fuck?" when it is dumped on them as a surprise.

If you want to make a product better, you have to keep tweaking, revising, and iterating. The same thing is true with a company.

This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.

If you still want people in the office every day, change that requirement to every afternoon instead. Then let your troops have their mornings to themselves.

Today you can work from home or collaborate with people you've never met who live thousands of miles away. It's time to rework work.

Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it.

Failure is not a prerequisite for success.