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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
The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what allows some people to transcend the setbacks and losses that come with age and to reinvent themselves again and again. -- Warren G
Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress. -- Jamais Cascio
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. -- Charles de Gaulle
There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds. -- James Lasdun
The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs. -- Tina Brown
The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive. -- Benigno Aquino III
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
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities. -- Robin Marantz Henig
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
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
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
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival. -- David Perlmutter
Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups. -- Tim Jackson
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
By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms. -- Osman Rashid
DivX Plus Streaming is adaptive bit rate streaming solutions, which means it works by detecting a user bandwidth and CPU capacity in real time and adjusting the quality of the video stream accordingly. -- Alfred Amoroso
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine. -- Yochai Benkler
If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there may be good reason for you to be fearful too. -- Frans de Waal
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
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
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
What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars. -- Murray Gell-Mann
Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem. -- Steven Johnson
It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer. -- Helen Fisher
The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests. -- Alex Shoumatoff
Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look. -- John Lahr
United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization. -- Adam Hartung
The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,. -- Howard Hughes
Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood. -- Asa Don Brown
Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive? -- Fred Emery
Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done. -- Jacques Barzun
Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition. -- Ronald A. Heifetz
This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems. -- John Henry Holland
Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process. -- Robert E. Davis
The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television. -- Dick Morris
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
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
What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function. -- Ernst von Glasersfeld
A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not. -- Steven Pinker
It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated. -- Kenneth I. Chenault
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it. -- George Gaylord Simpson
A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the impacts and effectiveness of global foreign aid. -- Jerry Sabloff
We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a way through here that won't lead to utter calamity. -- Andrew Revkin
Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative. -- Murray Bookchin
The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive. -- Kay Redfield Jamison

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