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Quotes About Parameters

The best TV that I watch, I always feel safe when I'm watching it. And that could be like 'Homeland' or 'The Americans'; by 'safety,' I mean the show knows its parameters.
~ Dan Levy
The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing. Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident? At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces?
~ Eric Metaxas
When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.
~ Chuck Klosterman
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
~ Bram Cohen
Demarcating the border between sense and nonsense makes interpretive frames reflexive and therefore serves as a catalyst for exploring the very parameters of learning.
~ Winfried Menninghaus
R0 = ?N/(? + b + v)
~ David Quammen
Don't go duplicating representations, or having multiple transports just for the fun of it, but do always consider the possibility that decomposition of your system by non–functional parameters may reveal opportunities to allow diverse solutions to your customers' advantage.
~ Richard Monson-Haefel
You might contract with an innovation firm such as Innosight or Strategyn to help flesh out the business parameters and operating model.
~ Rita Gunther McGrath
If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
~ Carlos Castaneda
I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.
~ Jeff Koons
So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
~ Jeremy Irons
The field itself required a particular mode of thinking. Not merely the standard mathematical skills but a visual dexterity that could retain complex constructions in the mind for long periods of time, transforming certain parameters while leaving others intact. It was a strenuous and disobliging intellectual endeavor, a sea change of thought in which the brain performed multidimensional mapping.
~ Ethan Canin
By comparing the confidence intervals of different means (or other parameters) we can get some idea about whether the means came from the same or different populations. FIGURE
~ Andy Field
Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.
~ Veerappa Moily
Every project has its own logic and parameters. In some objects, functionality is primary, and in others, it is rather inconsequential.
~ Marcel Wanders
People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?
~ Bjarke Ingels
There is great beauty in randomness," said Hollus. "But I speak about a much more basic design. This universe has had its fundamental parameters fine-tuned to an almost infinite degree so that it would support life.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.
~ Eliot Spitzer
I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.
~ Dominic Monaghan
In 'Alpha Protocol,' right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences.
~ Chris Avellone
I can no longer understand what the parameters are for valuing a player. It's all too random and in the hands of whoever has more money.
~ Gianluigi Buffon
Is a universe of discrete material particles possible only with one specific set of natural laws and parameter values? In other words, does human imagination, which can conceive of other laws and values, thereby exceed possible existence?
~ E. O. Wilson
If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.
~ Barry Diller