Running theme of Cryptonomicon

Wherein obviously

• Shaftoe's first haiku (December 1940) was a quick and dirty adaptation of the Marine Creed
  
  
• In '27 he got shipped off to Shanghai on very short notice, and no doubt had to display some adaptability
  
  
• The development of an offshoot of the species characterized by densely bearded males is an adaptive response to cold climates
  
  
• ...and so all physical adaptations to it must be placed in the same category
  
  
• "The bombes were adapted, by Turing and Welchman and others, from a design dreamed up by Polish cryptanalysts"
  
  
• Out of its handy pouch comes one Mark II fragmentation grenade, a.k.a. pineapple, and with a bit more groping he's got the Grenade Projection Adapter, M1. (Grenade Projection Adapter x3)
  
  
• "a small mammal...admired and even emulated by Qwghlmians for its hardiness and adaptability."
  
  
• Inside, a tiny anteroom is dominated by a sculpture: two nymphets in diaphanous veils kicking the crap out of a scurrying hag, entitled Fortitude and Adaptability Driving Out Adversity.
  
  
• Pekka ended up scoring a pretty nice nineteen-inch high-res multisync monitor perfectly adequate for his adaptable twenty-four-year-old eyes.
  
  
• Q.E.D. My thing about black stockings was a highly rational adaptation
  
  
• ..., we spent a whole week moving in a world that was perfectly adapted to stockings
  
  
• But this ROV carries its own power source-an oxygen/natural gas swash-plate motor, adapted from torpedo technology, and part of our peace dividend"
  
  
• Not only that, he has any number of peculiar ideas adapted from the Bavarian Illuminati, and is groping for some way to tie these in with higher mathematics
  
  
• Pigs adapt by fighting their way to perimeter of cage & hanging ear/heat exchangers out over the side to flap in the wind of the truck's motion
  
  
• It is a world, and a situation, to which Shaftoe and a lot of other people are perfectly adapted
  
  
• "Display some fucking adaptability," Shaftoe says
  
  
• So I displayed adaptability
  
  
• They were, in other words, capable of displaying adaptability
  
  
• Finally he starts to come around, starts to display adaptability
  again
  
  
• --you could adapt those same protocols to card games
  
  
• He happens to have a twelve-volt adapter for the laptop
  
  
• That these Jovian info-bolts are visible and moving is a visual cue that his radio adapter has managed to patch itself into the packet radio network
  
  
• "But Filipinos are highly adaptable."
  
  
• "So come up with another fucking way! Show some fucking adaptability!"
  
  
• "I see that you and yours have displayed adaptability and that is good"
  
  
• "Yes. The whole plan is ruined. Ah well, it was a nice conspiracy while it lasted. Perhaps Enoch Root will display some adaptability."