"Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually……" — Alan Perlis

More Adapting Quotes

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• Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment. — Joe Barton
• Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. — Samuel Butler
• I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me. — Paula Abdul
• Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. — Jackie Chan
• Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to… — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting… — William James
• The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of… — Wassily Kandinsky
• Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able… — Roger Bannister
• Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action...we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for… — Unknown Author
• Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide… — John Beddington
• John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our… — Michael Palin
• Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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