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.
To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves. . . . New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.
Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.
To be anti-racist you have to be actively a part of dismantling the systems that surround you and the systems that you benefit from.
I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.
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