"If, however, one factor is too successful, it will continue to be the winning factor regardless of the variation in the other factors over the range of variation in the conditions, and therefore will stifle the development of other advantageous factors until the conditions change sufficiently that it no longer is the winning factor. At this point, the whole population is ill prepared for the change, and may well perish entirely if the winning factor accidentally becomes the matching factor for a disease or a predator."

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Source : "O'reilly subjugated to the Lisp juggenaut". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. January 18, 2004.

Erik Naggum

#Successful Quotes #Winning Quotes #May Quotes

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”

Source : Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.135, Penguin
“But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).”
“They should rule who are able to rule best.”
“It's my body. And I like my body. And I like my breasts. And no, they're not fake.”
“Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.”

Source : Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”
“The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.”

Source : Greg Egan, Matthew Kressel (2017). “Bifrost n° 88: Spécial Greg Egan”, p.226, Le Bélial
“When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.”

Source : 'Absolute and Abitofhell' (1913)
“I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.”

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