Quotes About Deviation

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

Objectivity is obsessed with exactness and tends to be rather intolerant of deviation, almost

The coefficient of variation is a measure of variability that is computed as the ratio between the standard deviation and the mean of a probability distribution. You can think of it as a general measure of the relative breadth of a probability distribution. Since the square of the standard deviation is the variance of a distribution, this means that queues vary linearly with variance, a point worth remembering.

When you look for a conspiracy, look for the violation of Standard Operating Procedures.

Skipping: the ultimate display of nonconformity.

Why do you have to correct everything I say?" Julie glanced at his FTW! shirt. "Out of the two of us, I don't think I'm the one that deviates from the norm." The train slammed to a stop. "You're the one who seems to get off arguing." "You sound exactly like Finn. We're exchanging ideas. Debating." Matt looked down at his shorts. "And so far I haven't gotten off.

Something can't be a rule if there are exceptions to it. And please don't give me any banal untruths about exceptions proving the rule. Tell me something about exceptions as such." "Only one thing," she said coldly, "can be said about exceptions. They exist. Nothing more.

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that

I'm an anti-standard operating procedure guy.

The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser.

The simple fact of the matter is that on account of the mysterious curvature of the will that we call original sin, we deviate from the very actions and attitudes that will make us happy. In

Wertheim later wrote that Fish was "the most polymorphous pervert I had ever known. Someone who practiced every perversion and deviation known to man, from sodomy to sadism, eating excrement and self mutilation.

Exponential creativity demands abnormality. And requires us to deviate from ordinary company.

An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that allowed no deviation. page 714

no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour.

People, she said, generally wanted other people to believe the things they did, and would punish those who deviated...There were many such snares placed in the way of the unwary, and the consequence of inattention to the enforced wisdom of the times could be a medieval public shaming.

For much the same reasons, arguments about the so-called redistribution of wealth are mistaken in assuming that the existing distribution is somehow the natural state of things, from which any deviation is unnatural, and hence morally undesirable.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.

Perversion interests me most and is my guiding darkness.

Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

I can say firsthand Under Armour is a values-based people company, and this hasn't deviated for any administration.