Variables famous quotes

One man's constant is another man's variable.
-- Alan Perlis

#Men #Variables #Constant

There is no such thing as a free variable.
-- Alan Perlis

#Variables

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Variables #Sometimes #Conviction

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
-- B. F. Skinner

#Different #Variables #Way

The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
-- Bill Drayton

#Giving #Variables #Becoming

I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.
-- Bill Parcells

#Team #Talking #Variables

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
-- Bill Parcells

#Looks #Variables #Problem

I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_
-- Brian H. Hook

#Names #Variables #Common

Reuters was completely accurate that I am concerned about the level of the market. But I also made it clear on the conference call (and I believe as Reuters reported it), that it is almost impossible to predict what a market will do in the short term. There are too many variables.
-- Carl Icahn

#Believe #Levels #Variables

Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.
-- Chris Abani

#Long #Variables #Oppression

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Doe #Watches #Variables

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
-- Douglas Horton

#Beauty #Variables #Constant

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#Life Lesson #Groups #Variables

It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
-- Emile Durkheim

#Feelings #Needs #Variables

But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.
-- Faith Hunter

#Joy #Variables #Stones

Control all the variables you can... don't worry about the rest.
-- Forrest Griffin

#Mma #Worry #Variables

There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.
-- Georg Cantor

#Doubt #Variables #Facts

The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite limit no matter how small, or greater than any finite limit no matter how great.
-- Georg Cantor

#Mean #Variables #Matter

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.
-- Gregory Bateson

#Fall #Toxic #Variables

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
-- Hannah More

#Silence #Variables #Speech

A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods.
-- Henrietta Swan Leavitt

#Simple #Two #Variables

In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.
-- Henry Wessel, Jr.

#Photography #Two #Variables

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.
-- Hugh Laurie

#Lying #Variables #Human Condition

The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.
-- Hugh S. Johnson

#Oil #Elements #Variables

To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not science. To try to predict the future based on just one variable (CO2) in extraordinarily complex natural systems is folly. Yet when astronomers have the temerity to show that climate is driven by solar activities rather than CO2 emissions, they are dismissed as dinosaurs undertaking the methods of old-fashioned science.
-- Ian Plimer

#Trying #Climate #Variables

I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.
-- Irving Penn

#Work Out #Variables #Introducing

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.
-- James F. Cooper

#Mutation #Variables #Language

The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent. The probability of this relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a high degree of predictive validity.
-- James W. Prescott

#Society #Variables #Becoming

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.
-- Jerry Pournelle

#Fear #Eggs #Variables

Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value
-- John Kao

#Creativity #Variables #Process

What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code readable. If you read some expression using these identifiers and it reads like an English sentence, your program is much more likely to be correct, and much easier to maintain.
-- Joshua Bloch

#Expression #Names #Variables

Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.
-- Karl E. Weick

#People #Variables #Orderliness

The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite possibility if we stay smooth and adjust to the slippery conditions.
-- Ken Block

#Ice #Snow #Variables

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.
-- Laurel Clark

#Variables #Process #Gravity

A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities.
-- Leonhard Euler

#Expression #Numbers #Variables

The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.
-- Leslie White

#Independent #Technology #Variables

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.
-- Louis Moreau Gottschalk

#History #Historical #Variables

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.
-- Martin Filler

#Survival #Variables #Taste

How many fluids should you take in daily?  That is an unanswerable question with all of the variables that affect our fluid needs at any given time.  If you meet anyone who can answer that question for you, run away quickly.
-- Matt Stone

#Running #Answers #Variables

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
-- Philip Zimbardo

#Powerful #Hero #Variables

the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.
-- Ruth Rendell

#Weather #World #Variables

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.
-- Sam Kean

#Running #Variables #Scientist

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
-- Thomas E. Mann

#Fashion #Variables #Uniforms

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
-- Tony Snow

#Science #Giving #Variables

Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.
-- Walter J. Phillips

#Color #Variables #Form

The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true.
-- Willard Van Orman Quine

#Order #Ifs And #Variables

To be is to be the value of a variable.
-- Willard Van Orman Quine

#Good Life #Variables #Values

How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.
-- Willard Van Orman Quine

#Answers #Variables #Rivals

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.
-- William Bligh

#Adventure #Wind #Variables

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
-- William H. Seward

#Change #World #Variables

Many Westerners see follow-through and reliability as the most critical factor in how they calculate the trustworthiness of another individual. In some other cultures, who you know and how you're related to other individuals is the most important variable. And for others, it may be as much about your reputation and what others have said about you.
-- David Livermore

#Other Cultures #Important #Variables

The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...
-- Brad Furman

#Casting #Variables #Complicated

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Literature #Variables #Speech

Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.
-- Richard A. Falk

#Alternatives #Variables #Shifting

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.
-- Richard Ayoade

#Sound #Variables #Littles

Hydrogeology is not a simple discipline, .. It's full of variables that are always changing.
-- Ron Parker

#Simple #Discipline #Variables