#adaptive

The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that are engaged with them. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#change #depending #develop #economic #engaged

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#condemned #correspond #harmless #inclinations #least

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#different #enter #entirely #environment #living

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy. ↗

— John W. Snow

#adaptive #american #american economy #economic #economic policy

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind. ↗

— Bob Ney

#belief #blind #braille #core #effective

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging. ↗

— Kenneth H. Cooper

#age #aging #body #body fat #does

At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#ajax #applications #been #doing #interaction

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#else #fast #feet #strategy #useless

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#around #begin #changes #different #every