Adaptation

“The process of Creolization, of adaptation one to the other, is taking place. But this radical movement of being themselves, of being African, is very much there.”

“You tell a joke, they laugh. If they don’t laugh, you fix it, you go in a different way.”

“The path from our first attempts in 1975 to a commercially viable device was by no means straightforward—it required a lot of flexibility.”

“Media outlets that don’t reinvent themselves will perish.”

“A movie star gets a script and he says, how can I change this script to suit me. A movie actor gets a script and says, how can I change me to suit this script?”

“The most important factor in his career has been that he was always ready to learn and take proper advice and apply the same on the field.”

“It was the year I invented shorts. I found sweat-sodden cricket flannels were weighing me down, so my tailor ran up some prototype shorts.”

“We must all learn to adjust.”

“道在日新，艺亦须日新，新者生机也；不新则死。”

“Thế Chiến Quốc, thế Xuân Thu, gặp thời thế, thế thời phải thế.”

“Cambiare idea significa vivere nel presente.”

“When I was younger it was essential, if you wanted to stay working in the theatre then you had to be able to turn your hand to anything.”

“What was good for records was good for broadcasting; and what was good for broadcasting will be as certainly good for talkies.”

“Cuando el baloncesto cambia, has de estar preparado para cambiarte tú mismo.”

“We have to resist media imperialism - the tendency to colonize, to define new technologies in terms of the old.”

“all things to all people in all ways”

“Culture lives by change.”