Quotes by Variables A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor. Jean de la Bruyere variablesmindmen On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big. Jeff Bezos variablessizetwo It simply isn't true, for example, that being big is in general better for fitness than being small except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that flying slow and high is in general better for fitness than flying fast and low except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that being monogamous is in general better for fitness than being polygamous... except when there are effects of interacting variables... It's not that the underlying generalizations are there but imperceptible in the ambient noise. Jerry Fodor variablesflyingexample We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die. Jerry Pournelle variableseggsfear I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience. Joan Didion variablescuttingrooms Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value John Kao variablescreativityprocess Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change. John Locke variablestogethermoving Any time you're making a movie, all you want to do is reduce the variables of things that could possibly go wrong. I think that's why we work with the same people over and over again. Jon Hamm variablespeoplethinking 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 variablesexpressionnames 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 orderlinessvariablespeople As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone . Karl Marx variableshandsway 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 variablesicesnow 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 gravityvariablesprocess 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 variablesexpressionnumbers 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 variablesindependenttechnology 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 variableshistoricalhistory Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves. Luc de Clapiers variablesopinion Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before. Margaret Halsey variablesrealitycommitment High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste. Martin Filler variablessurvivaltaste Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise. Martin J. Whitman variablesfournoise«12345»
