John McGinnis Quotes

Through writing, Homo sapiens then became the first species to preserve learning, enabling knowledge to grow, ultimately at an exponential pace. Collective learning over time then became the source of technological improvement, a process that could move much faster than evolution.

Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

I do think evolution is an important aspect of keeping a tradition alive. If it freezes and remains very static in its form, it dies, and so a natural evolution has to occur.

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.