Quotes About Stability

More generally, when a nonchaotic system is disturbed slightly, the disturbance either doesn't grow at all or else grows very mildly, increasing in proportion to how much time has passed. One says that the errors grow no faster than linearly in time.

How does incoherence give birth to synchrony? It dawned on me one day that there was a straightforward way to frame the question as an exercise in differential equations: I needed to view incoherence as an equilibrium state and then calculate its stability.

neutral stability normally occurs only at transitions, at critical settings of a system's parameters (the "knobs" that control its properties). But the Kuramoto model was breaking this rule. Its incoherent state was doggedly staying neutrally stable, even as we widened the bell curve to make the population more diverse. Turning that knob over a wide range of parameters made no difference.

The end of your life must be secure before the present can be stable.

The first rule in making money is not to lose it.

Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities.

A good wife is a stone to hold one down," said the Wolfhound. "A rock to rely on," Rostnikov corrected gently. "Da," the Wolfhound said seriously, returning to Russian. "A rock to rely on. The American idiom contradicts itself and is often difficult to fathom.

I don't think we're basically a revolutionary country. We have too large a middle class. The middle class tends to be apathetic. An apathetic middle class gives stability to a system. They never get carried away strongly, one way or the other. Maybe we'll have riots, maybe we'll have shootings. Maybe we'll have uprisings as the farmers did in Iowa. But you won't have revolution.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.

If a root is pulled out, don't think that it happened because of the strength of the wind, but because you didn't make the root grow deeply enough.

Guys are a lot like kitchen floors – lay 'em right the first time and you can walk all over them for years.

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

A game of soccer is popular because its rules don't change often.

My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.

It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

We have salads, some other beverages. But in reality, it's still fundamentally the same business. The most likely thing the next person will buy is a sandwich and a soft drink. After a half-century of glacial change, we're still pretty much the same business.

A band is as solid as its drummer is.

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.

I'm an architect. Before you start pouring the concrete, you build a foundation that is solid so that when you take the scaffolding down, it holds - forever. So that when junior high schools are doing 'Hunchback,' a 12-year-old as Frollo still works on some level.

The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

So it takes years to make a solid company.