Quotes About Rules

Core Mechanics The core mechanics consist of the data and the algorithms that precisely define the game's rules and internal operations.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.

That overall, all-inclusive, never-changing set of rules does not exist—for you are ever-changing, growth-seeking Beings.

There are clear rules governing the relationship between the homeless and the average person on the street: speak to each other politely; don't look each other in the eye; don't ask for names; and don't give more than twenty dollars.

We were taught firmly as children that whenever any member of the family appeared on the stage we were never to applaud. Never! It just wasn't done, either when they came on the stage or at the end of the performance. To do so would have been to break one of the firmest family rules of etiquette.

Each of us, actually every animal, is a data scientist. We collect data from our sensors, and then we process the data to get abstract rules to perceive our environment and control our actions in that environment to minimize pain and/or maximize pleasure. We have memory to store those rules in our brains, and then we recall and use them when needed. Learning is lifelong; we forget rules when they no longer apply or revise them when the environment changes. Learning

People who are forever breaking the rules, trying other roads, attempting to create their own system of values and truth from scratch, spend most of their time calling up someone to get them out of trouble and help repair the damage, and then ask the silly question "What went wrong?" As H. H. Farmer said, "If you go against the grain of the universe you get splinters.

The musician breaks the rules of work by playing, rather than working. It's queer, in that it's a transgression.

I see racism as institutional: the rules are different for me because I'm black. It's not necessarily someone's specific attitude against me; it's just the fact that I, as a black man, have a much harder time making an art-house movie and getting it released than a white person does about their very white point of view. That's racism.

The Biden Administration is quick to push stringent COVID-19 rules on the American people while practically stacking illegal immigrants on top of each other in border facilities then releasing them into the community.

I respect religious rules. I am a true God-fearing Hindu.

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

Reminding oneself that not all rules are good rules and sometimes it's good to challenge them is an important part of being an effective parliamentarian.

Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.

Sometimes, we nerds of technology sort of don't think that the rules necessarily apply to us in the same way, but I think when you produce products that hundreds of millions of people, if not billions of people, are using, we have the same responsibilities as any other person representing the Fourth Estate.

Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they live. As with so many immature individuals of all living kinds, everything they do is excessive and uncoordinated with the needs or constraints of their neighbors... they are reproductive but not productive.

When I was writing about the Republican primaries, it was as though the Bible was a black box that people reached into to pull out edicts and prejudices and rules and opinions, and I wish they had fact-checked it! Especially Rick Santorum.

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

There are high hurdles for expelling someone from a party, and with good reason.

The Internet is working because it's free and open, and there's no discrimination. Without these rules, ISPs could treat content differently based on commercial interests or even ideology.

Beijing has a history of ignoring the rules. It takes pride in it.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.