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Quotes About Combination

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
~ Walter Scott
David Kord Murray, a former rocket scientist42 who worked on projects for NASA and later became the head of innovation at Intuit, made a study of connective creativity in his book Borrowing Brilliance. According to Murray, "The nature of innovation [is that] we build new ideas out of existing ideas." Murray cites Einstein, Walt Disney, George Lucas, and Steve Jobs as prime examples of innovators who "defined problems, borrowed ideas, and then made new combinations.
~ Warren Berger
We arrive at originality because the dendrites have reached out and made contact with the branches of faraway "trees," thereby enabling us to combine thoughts, bits of knowledge, and influences that normally do not mix.
~ Warren Berger
Sour apples neutralized chocolate. Bread neutralized hot, spicy foods
~ Wendy Mass
More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination.
~ Wilbur Wright
Why are experts inferior to algorithms? One reason, which Meehl suspected, is that experts try to be clever, think outside the box, and consider complex combinations of features in making their predictions. Complexity may work in the odd case, but more often than not it reduces validity. Simple combinations of features are better.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Los mismos alimentos capaces de desencadenar una reacción alérgica cuando están incorrectamente combinados muchas veces no producen ningún efecto nocivo cuando se consumen de acuerdo con las leyes de la trofología.
~ Daniel Reid
Invention accumulates. If you combine the diesel engine, GPS, and the echo sounder, the opportunities they create are not just added to one another, they are multiplied.
~ David Attenborough
Two heads are twice as good as half as many.
~ James D. Doss
Two heads are twice as good as half many.
~ James D. Doss
I was shameless, and handsome, and well-endowed, and those three things in combination, I think, will never leave you high and dry.
~ James Lear
Youth and athleticism are a wonderful combination: not even a sudden murder can quell the storm in a young man's flannels.
~ James Lear
Just about done here." Kowalski sat cross-legged on the ground. Coiled at his feet was a spool of detonation cord threaded through cubes of C4. "It's just like stringing popcorn." "Remind me not to come over to your house for Christmas." He shrugged. "Christmas is okay. It's Fourth of July that scares most people away." Painter could only imagine. Kowalski plus fireworks. Not a good combination.
~ James Rollins
No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.
~ Aimee Bender
I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
~ Alain de Botton
Had I not had the childhood I did, would these traits not be so at the forefront of my personality? Who knows? All I know is that I am the product of all the experiences I have had, good and bad, and if I am in a happy place in my life (as I truly am), then I can have no regrets about any of the combination of events and circumstances that have led me to the here and now.
~ Alan Cumming
Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.
~ Gregory Bateson
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
~ James Gray
I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
It's hard to pinpoint, but there's something really special about all-vocal music and Christmas music paired together. I'm not really sure what it is, but it's just a magical combination.
~ Mitch Grassi
Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.
~ Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
Being a performer and recording artist and playing 'World of Warcraft' - that's a pretty time-intensive combination.
~ Lights
While they're still warm, I like to sandwich a chocolate chip cookie with raspberry stracchiatella gelato.
~ Sherry Yard
A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made made curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.
~ Rachel Kushner