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Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force. by John Ruskin

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

John Ruskin
adaptation architecture form
In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more importan... by Larry Constantine

In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.

Larry Constantine
adaptation important moving
Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to... by Marjane Satrapi

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

Marjane Satrapi
adaptation want book
All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adapta... by Max McKeown

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

Max McKeown
adaptation successful

The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.

Michael Gazzaniga
adaptation nervous brain
Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of clim... by Nicholas Stern

Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change

Nicholas Stern
adaptation climate challenges

Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised

Nicholas Stern
adaptation climate cost

....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

Pliny the Elder
adaptation moral causes

When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get closer to what his stories are really about. Most other adaptations I've seen sort of follow the story but they never satisfy me as an audience member or as a reader.

Raul Garcia
adaptation members stories

At the time, The Hotel New Hampshire was John Irving's favorite adaptation of his work, which meant a lot to all of us who worked on that movie.It's amazing to me that that was a studio movie. That was a summer studio release! If that doesn't tell you how much the business has changed, nothing will.

Rob Lowe
adaptation release summer
Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines. by Ronald A. Heifetz

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.

Ronald A. Heifetz
adaptation yesterday today

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

Stephen Jay Gould
pathways adaptation advantage

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

Stephen Jay Gould
too-much-power adaptation brain

People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.

Stephen Jay Gould
adaptation helping people

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

Stephen Jay Gould
adaptation biology odd

Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution?

Stephen Jay Gould
adaptation evolution views

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

Stephen Sondheim
adaptation opinion people
After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Col... by Terry Southern

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

Terry Southern
collectors adaptation
Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances. by Thomas B. Macaulay

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

Thomas B. Macaulay
finesse adaptation mean

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

Thomas A. Edison
adaptation problem ideas
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