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Quotes About Configuration

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.
~ Seth Lloyd
Like every big idea, Birdseye's breakthrough was not a single insight, but a network of other ideas, packaged together in a new configuration. What made Birdseye's idea so powerful was not simply his individual genius, but the diversity of places and forms of expertise that he brought together.
~ Steven Johnson
When energy is poured into a system, and the system dissipates that energy in its slide toward entropy, it can become poised in an orderly, indeed beautiful, configuration—a sphere, spiral, starburst, whirlpool, ripple, crystal, or fractal.
~ Steven Pinker
Sell a feeling to your target audience Start with the negative emotions that your target audience feels. What keeps them up at night? Our audience feels frustrated and overwhelmed with manual data entry. I sold peace of mind. We installed, configured, and supported the software. There was no need to hire an expensive firm to build and maintain custom software. Our product performed the function of many apps combined. If there was an issue, we were the point of contact.
~ Joseph Anderson
Security is about how you configure power, and who has access to what. That is political," Song said.
~ Joseph Menn
Contrary to the common belief, the regular course of events, governed by the laws of physics, is never the consequence of one well-ordered configuration of atoms – not unless that configuration of atoms repeats itself a great number of times, either as in the periodic crystal or as in a liquid or in a gas composed of a great number of identical molecules.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
For example, users with a full hard drive may unwittingly delete configuration files under the mistaken assumption that deleting a boot.ini file must be okay because they don't remember ever using it.
~ Shon Harris
Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.
~ Seth Lloyd
Chiral receptor sites in the human body interact only with drug molecules having the proper absolute configuration, resulting in marked differences in the pharmacological activities of enantiomers.
~ Ryoji Noyori
Fewer than one in twenty security professionals has the core competence and the foundation knowledge to take a system all the way from a completely unknown state of security through mapping, vulnerability testing, password cracking, modem testing, vulnerability patching, firewall tuning, instrumentation, virus detection at multiple entry points, and even through back-ups and configuration management.
~ Stephen Northcutt
How can we hope to catch all the configuration options in an entire system? At some level we can't, and this is at the heart of what professional testers do.
~ Steve Freeman
dans Histoire de la folie, « a priori historique et concret » dans Naissance de la clinique ou épistémè dans Les Mots et les Choses101 relèveront de ce transcendantal historique que l'on détermine comme le principe de configuration des positivités historiques.
~ Michel Foucault
For now, we will simply assume that one way or another, the early universe transitioned into this low-entropy, highly ordered configuration, sparking the bang and allowing us to declare that the rest is history.
~ Brian Greene
We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers.
~ Meir Soloveichik
Within his temples felt thoughts not of woman's looks, but of stellar aspects and the configuration of constellations. Thus, to his physical attractiveness was added the attractiveness of mental inaccessibility.
~ Thomas Hardy
DevOps practices can be made compatible with ITIL process. However, to support the shorter lead times and higher deployment frequencies associated with DevOps, many areas of the ITIL processes become fully automated, solving many problems associated with the configuration and release management processes (e.g., keeping the configuration management database and definitive software libraries up to date).
~ Gene Kim
Consequently, there has been much less time for the market forces that act on companies to reach the kind of meta-stable configuration manifested in the systematic scaling laws obeyed by cities and organisms. As explained
~ Geoffrey West
Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.
~ Kevin Mitnick
If the present has no meaning, then what "exists" in the universe? Is not what "exists" precisely what is here "in the present"? The whole idea that the universe exists now in a certain configuration and changes together with the passage of time simply doesn't stack up anymore.
~ Carlo Rovelli
Or if they share any other characteristic. If we think about it carefully, every configuration is particular, every configuration is singular, if we look at all of its details, since every configuration always has something about it that characterizes it in a unique way. Just as, to its mother, every child is particular and unique.
~ Carlo Rovelli
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration but the honing is uniform.
~ George Steiner
With the buck before me suspended in immobility, there seems to be time for all things, time even to turn my gaze inward and see what it is that has robbed the hunt of its savour: the sense that this has become no longer a morning's hunting but an occasion on which either the proud ram bleeds to death on the ice or the old hunter misses his aim; that for the duration of this frozen moment the stars are locked in a configuration in which events are not themselves but stand for other things.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live. —RABBI ABRAHAM ISAAC KOOK
~ Tamar Frankiel
But most of them must have the wit to understand that phenomena like these are maddeningly unstable, and that there's no telling what weird, seemingly inconsequential event might cause the system to shift into a radically different configuration.
~ Neal Stephenson