Quotes About Variables

However, not even science could account for all the variables that people introduced to the equation.

A few major opportunities clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind, loving diagnosis involving multiple variables. And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.

The future is a major abstraction, riddled with a million vibrating variables you can't control. The best information you'll ever have about a decision is at the moment of execution.

A "new world" view of the brain suggests instead that communication is itself an emotional phenomenon that depends on three interrelational rather than "mental" variables: direction, distance, and anxiety. The capacity of those with whom you are communicating to hear you depends primarily on these three variables.

But uncontrolled variables are what make dreams come true. If we change the way work works we can live the dream of work-life balance and sustainability.

Our final task', he wrote, 'might be to select those variables which can be deliberately controlled or managed by central authority in the kind of system in which we actually live.

When all economists are equally open-minded and are willing to incorporate important variables in their work, even if the rational model says those variables are supposedly irrelevant, the field of behavioral economics will disappear. All economics will be as behavioral as it needs to be. And those who have been stubbornly clinging to an imaginary world that consists only of Econs will be waving a white flag, rather than an invisible hand.

The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices.

Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")

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

In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.

The numbers are there just to help you - at the end of the day you've still got to make the decision. There are certain things the numbers can't quantify: They can't quantify injuries, they can't quantify the weather, they can't give you a number on whether the referee's going to make a good call or a bad call.

Basically, we convert the entire Web into a big equation, with several hundred million variables, which are the page ranks of all the Web pages, and billions of terms, which are the links. And we're able to solve that equation.

Photography turns one and all into fools, including—especially—artists like himself, eager to hunt life and trap as many of its fleeting variables as possible inside a 35 mm frame but doomed to return empty-handed far more often than not.

It now appears that we may have a more complete quantum theory at hand, one that includes Hidden Variables. However, at this point, that does not mean we have found deep reality and can junk the Copenhagen Interpretation. It simply means that we have another new model — which implies, for most physicists, another argument for model agnosticism or zeteticism.

Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.

Consider, for example, the truly hideous practice of creating a variable named klass just because the name class was used for something else.

Variables in functional languages do not vary.

All race conditions, deadlock conditions, and concurrent update problems are due to mutable variables. You cannot have a race condition or a concurrent update problem if no variable is ever updated. You cannot have deadlocks without mutable locks.

That's being attentive to every variable name. You should name a variable using the same care with which you name a first-born child.

All race conditions, deadlock conditions, and concurrent update problems are due to mutable variables. All the problems we face in applications that require multiple threads, and multiple processors—cannot happen if there are no mutable variables.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

Scattergraphs (sometimes known as scatterplots or scatter diagrams) are useful for representing paired data in such a way that you can more easily investigate a possible relationship between the two things being measured.