Quotes and Sayings About Variables
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One man's constant is another man's variable.
-- Alan Perlis -
Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
-- B. F. Skinner -
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 -
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 -
I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
-- Bill Parcells -
I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_
-- Brian H. Hook -
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 -
Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.
-- Chris Abani -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Control all the variables you can... don't worry about the rest.
-- Forrest Griffin -
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 -
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 -
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 -
the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
-- Hannah More -
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 -
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. -
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.
-- Hugh Laurie -
The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.
-- Hugh S. Johnson -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.
-- Jerry Pournelle -
Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value
-- John Kao
