Jim Goad Quotes

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.

It's interesting to think about the different forms one place can take.

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The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

The entire Nintendo group will carry on the spirit of Mr. Yamauchi by honoring, in our approach to entertainment, the sense of value he has taught us - that there is merit in doing what is different - and at the same time, by changing Nintendo in accordance with changing times.

Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

I thoroughly believe in evolution, and how we evolve and how our physical being is affected by time and use and by the environment... it's more than just challenging, it can be terrifying. We all struggle, but I think it's important to be there for one another.

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.

Different time, different place,” I said. “Things can change. People can change.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

I am about to learn what it's like to live here.

Like species, couples die out or evolve.

Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face.

Either things grow and change or they die.

Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.

Every generation and every group brings the door into other things.