“ Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
“ Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
“ It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ones. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
“ The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. ”
- Alan Kay- Copy
“ In today's rapidly changing and volatile world, the United States must stay at least one step ahead of our enemies. ”
- Mark Pryor- Copy
“ There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
“ The definition of the design problem comes from understanding the essence of the variables, but the solution evolves through the application of constants, principles of design that hold true in every case. The resulting design should be a marriage of the constants and the variables. ”
- John Portman- Copy
“ The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
“ The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves… it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal. ”
- Adrienne Rich- Copy
“ The information we're getting is that pre-storm levels could be seen in four to six weeks,... That can certainly change, though. We're in an extremely fluid situation right now. Things are changing very quickly. ”
- Martha Mitchell- Copy
“ This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove. ”
- Laurel Clark- Copy
“ Prepare by knowing your walk away and by building the number of variables you can work with during the negotiation… you need to have a walk away… a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents the least you will accept. Without one, you have no negotiating road map. ”
- Unknown- Copy
“ The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant… ”
- Fortran manual for Xerox Computers- Copy
“ Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
“ Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word… ”
- Tom Blair- Copy
“ Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science. ”
- Paul Valery- Copy
“ The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first. ”
- Paul Houston- Copy
“ I look for an interesting and oftentimes, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Thos two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay… ”
- William Baldwin- Copy
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