Plasticity Quotes

“Plasticity … means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Each relatively stable phase of equilibrium in such a structure is marked by what we may call a new set of habits. Organic matters, especially nervous tissues, seem to be endowed with a very extraordinary degree of plasticity of this sort ...”
― William James, The Principles of Psychology

“You can believe your life into any state you want, he decided. Reality is plastic. You mold it. You pretend things into existence.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

“The business plasticity is the organization’s capability to change, adapt, and innovate with speed.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Fit: Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit

“As parents move from defensive processes to increased empathy for their children, the children's attachment security increases.

Thus, on one side we have the continuity of psychic organization over time and the power of early experience to shape mind, brain, psyche, and behavior of both the individual and future generations. On the other side, there is the equally compelling evidence of the psyche's exquisite responsiveness to current conditions, especially when these conditions favor the activation of the individual's self-righting, self-healing mechanisms.”
― Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body and Brain

“We are nearing the end of this phase of the #tech boom. The next phase is starting - heterogeneous compute, infrastructure plasticity, etc. and that doesn't even include quantum.
Tom Golway 2022”
― Tom Golway, Edge to Cloud

“Beyond Serverless is Infrastructure Plasticity where the underlying physical infrastructure is enriched and presented to the application as a Metaverse that is fully optimized to support the application’s service requirements,”
― Tom Golway, Edge to Cloud

“Humans are characterised by developmental plasticity, an adaptation that allows for survival in geographically or temporally variable ecological conditions, but survival at one age may at a cost to health at later ages.”
― Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach