Quotes about Evolution

If history is any guide, companies that keep disruptive technologies bottled up in their labs, working to improve them until they suit mainstream markets, will not be nearly as successful as firms that find markets that embrace the attributes of disruptive technologies as they initially stand.

It's no surprise, really. Processes are often hard to see—they're a combination of both formal, defined, and documented steps and expectations and informal, habitual routines or ways of working that have evolved over time. But they matter profoundly. As MIT's Edgar Schein has explored and discussed, processes are a critical part of the unspoken culture of an organization.1 They enforce "this is what matters most to us.

In reality, spinning out is an appropriate step only when confronting disruptive innovation.

Still, life had a way of adding day to day

And since beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful, and he is static, his life stagnates in a china sea.

To upset everything every 3 or 4 years is my notion of a happy life.

Habits gradually change the face of one's life as time changes one's physical face; & one does not know it.

Queer, I mused, to see what we were thinking five years ago.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.