“In fantasy the world is always adapting to you, in reality you are always adapting to the world. That is the only difference.”

“The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.”

“In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out.”

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

“Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.”

“Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.”