David Grinspoon Quotes

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

We have to look for opportunities if we're going to survive the next 50 years. We can't depend on what we have now.

If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

The good ideas will survive.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.

My architecture is the architecture of survival.

To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.

If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.

make away out of no way

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

I think it's important that you always transform if you can. That's what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can - that's the key to longevity.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.