#natura

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#access #achieved #communicate #every #every time

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#caribbean #comes #dissolves #faced #history

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#i #like #natural #onstage #out

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. ↗

— Alan Watts

#completely #different #god #mosque #natural

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#carpet #come #comfortable #explaining #feel

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. ↗

— Archibald Wavell

#leader #learning #make #man #natural

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#consequences #ecology #every #every time #example

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#comes #cycle #destroying #employ #end