Quotes by Variables There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and a random one. In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing. Nassim Nicholas Taleb variablesdifferencestaken The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading. Norm MacDonald variablesdifferentreading Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge. Philip Zimbardo variablespowerfulhero 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 variablesshiftingalternatives 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 variablessoundlittles The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem. Robert Anton Wilson variablesconstanttoo-much In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem. Robert A. Heinlein variableshelpfulproblem Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness. Robert Louis Stevenson variableslightmen Hydrogeology is not a simple discipline, .. It's full of variables that are always changing. Ron Parker variablesdisciplinesimple If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants. Sam Kean variablesscientistrunning Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life. Sandra Bernhard cuttersvariablescookies You make one tiny variable and so help me, I’ll have you slaughtered where you sit. (Kiefer) He’s just such a nice man. (Nykyrian) Sherrilyn Kenyon variablesnicemen Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed. Stephen Covey variablesimportantpaper If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing. Talcott Parsons variablesthreemissing Autism is an extremely variable disorder. Temple Grandin variablesautismdisorder We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables. Terence McKenna variablesmodernart Time is a series of fluctuating variables. Terence McKenna variablesseries 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 variablesuniformsfashion All variables are independent. Thomas Pynchon variablesindependent Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen. Thomas Sowell variablesscienceyears«12345»
