Quotes and Sayings About Arbitrary
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.
-- Adrian Lyne -
There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
-- Alan Greenspan -
The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.
-- Alexandra Harney -
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
-- Algernon Sidney -
A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.
-- Amy Heckerling -
When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
-- Andre Breton -
Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
-- Anson Mount -
No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.
-- Benjamin Martin -
No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible. Sometimes it's even better.
-- Bob Gill -
Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.
-- Bruce Barnbaum -
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.
-- Bruce Tulgan -
Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.
-- Charles Hartshorne -
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.
-- Cornelius Cardew -
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.
-- David Ricardo -
I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.
-- Derrick Jensen -
Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.
-- Dieter Rams -
When you have trouble with things—whether it's figuring out whether to push or pull a door or the arbitrary vagaries of the modern computer and electronics industries—it's not your fault. Don't blame yourself: blame the designer.
-- Donald A. Norman -
Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule
-- Donald A. Norman -
It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.
-- Donald A. Norman -
It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.
-- Edward Jenks -
Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.
-- Ermanno Bencivenga -
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...
-- Farley Mowat -
The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.
-- Ferdinand de Saussure -
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.
-- Frances Mayes -
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
-- Francois Rabelais -
To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.
-- Frank Darabont -
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
-- Fred Brooks -
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
-- Frederick Law Olmsted -
Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.
-- Frederick Sommer
