“Adapt to your surrounding but remain flexible for growing.”

“And the most successful people are those who accept, and adapt to, constant change. This adaptability requires a degree of flexibility and humility most people can't manage.”

“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”

“But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.”

“Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid!”

“Most hackers are young because young people tend to be adaptable. As long as you remain adaptable, you can always be a good hacker.”