#doomed

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#competitive #doomed #ecological #evolutionary #extinction

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. ↗

— John McCarthy

#doomed #nonsense #refuses #talk #who

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#america #because #car #doomed #failure

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#back #begin #cannot #challenged #doomed

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#clarke #doomed #evolution #humans #kubrick

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. ↗

— Huey Newton

#first #learn #lesson #man #must

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#doomed #envision #fall #found #happen

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ↗

— William James

#doomed #even #find #life #unendurable

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#despite #doing #doomed #enjoy #fact

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#basically #community #doomed #engineering #fail