Modification famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time
-- Alfred Russel Wallace

#Matter #Form #Modification
If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Self #Want #Modification
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Modification #Machinery #Heredity
I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick.
-- Mireille Guiliano

#Littles #Sticks #Modification
Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Modification #Plans
The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.
-- Terry Winograd

#Independent #Program #Modification
It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode.
-- Ross W. Greene

#Problem #Behavior #Modification

There's a profound price to the incorrect assumption that LGBTQ movements are white, male and wealthy. That is not a good thing to be dealing with if you're in the midst of a conversation where the recession profoundly impacts you at the same time because people say well, "Really? What's your issue? I mean you all have money. You all have access."
Whatever you believe, you become.
The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with itself or with its neighbors. ... Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality.
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I didn't know all the words. It was one of those songs you had to learn when you were younger. It wasn't as important for people raised in the 80's and 90's as it was to people raised in the 50's, 60's and 70's so when I started singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," Jane [Fonda] heard me singing it and started singing the rest of it. Suddenly everyone on set everyone was singing. That's just something I can keep in my heart forever.
Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.
We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.
I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.