Quotes About Variables

An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.

Even God can't plan for everything. Too many variables.

It turns out the unconscious mind is better at making complex decisions than is the conscious mind114. The conscious mind just can't handle as many variables, apparently. Quoth one of the researchers: "At some point in our evolution, we started to make decisions consciously, and we're not very good at it."115

Ultimately, all science is correlation. No matter how effectively it may use one variable to describe another, its equations will always ultimately rest upon the surface of a black box. (Saint Herbert might have put it most succinctly when he observed that all proofs inevitably reduce to propositions that have no proof.)

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

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Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

It is surprising how much disruption the structure of normal life can absorb and still keep functioning. But then again, considered mathematically, society has never been an assemblage of things so much as an assemblage of variables.

Maybe it wasn't about the number; maybe it was about the symbol. Infinity. Maybe because there were infinite questions to ask, maybe because wonder was limitless. There were so many variables so many unknowns.

Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.

These factors point to one of the fundamentals of leadership: the greater the scope of a decision and the more variables and uncertainties there are, the more important it is for the leader to be aware of unconscious drives and biases that could affect emotions, reason, and intuition.

That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Like I said, they wanted to test us, see how we'd react to what they call the Variables, and to a problem that has no solution.

biotech creatures we have manufactured to help us create and fully manage the planned Variables.

It struck Thomas suddenly how thoroughly every detail of this game—this experiment—had been thought out. Could it be that the very name they'd used for their organization had been one of the Variables from the beginning? A word with obvious menace, yet an entity they were told was good? It was probably just another poke to see how their brains reacted, what they felt.

Don't accept contingency fees or "pay for performance"; you're not a trained animal act. Variables are often outside your control, and besides, you're being paid for your best advice. It's up to the client to implement it effectively.

Everything is physics and math.

Ask anybody who has ever remodeled their house. There's always problems. They open up walls, they find this, they find that. There is always something. I'm in a business where you have to control those variables.

Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

All survival situations revolve around a host of variables...Always adapt, think positive, and move forward.

The factors that make work life stressful and overwhelming mostly include the lack of control over critical variables in your job, especially being marginalized from decision making.

What farmers could profitably raise at any given location would depend on two key variables: how much people in the city were willing to pay for different crops, and how much it cost to transport those crops to market.

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.