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Quotes About Mutable

water is so protean a medium that it can be made to fit any purpose.
~ Philip Ball
Did his soul change every time it achieved a new insight? The very definition of a soul was immutability. Perhaps the root of his confusion was the conflation of soul and knowledge. Perhaps the soul was one of those tools built to do exactly one specific task, to know that I am I, and was mutable with respect to all other forms of knowledge?
~ Jonathan Franzen
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
~ Leon Trotsky
Even if complete immutability might not be possible, it's beneficial for regular mutable objects to keep their internal state in immutable data structures, because that allows easier synchronization when the object is modified from multiple thrads or in a reentrant way.
~ Jaroslav Tulach
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
~ James Madison
So here is that line from the American Declaration of Independence translated into biological terms: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men evolved differently, that they are born with certain mutable characteristics, and that among these are life and the pursuit of pleasure.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Lo que distinguía a los nazis de otras sectas humanistas era una definición distinta de «humanidad», que estaba profundamente influida por la teoría de la evolución. En contraste con otros humanistas, los nazis creían que la humanidad no es algo universal y eterno, sino una especie mutable que puede evolucionar o degenerar. El hombre puede evolucionar hacia el superhombre o degenerar en un subhumano.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
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.
~ Robert C. Martin
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.
~ Robert C. Martin
To what extent do we self-construct, do we self-invent? How do we self-identify, and how mutable is that identity? Like, what if one could be anyone at any time? Well, my characters, like the ones in my shows, allow me to play with the spaces between those questions.
~ Sarah Jones
I find it really hard to stick to one thing because I'm so fickle and I like to change my mind a lot.
~ Ashnikko
I can swing widely in both directions of helpful or not.
~ Gayle Rankin
I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.
~ Joan Allen
impermanence.
~ Robert Wright
Today, he says, they will work on ?????, mýthos, which means a conversation or something said, but also a tale or a story, a legend from the time of the old gods, and he is explaining how it's a delicate, mutable word, that it can suggest something false and true at the same time, when his attention frays.
~ Anthony Doerr
For a protest movement to arise out of traumas of daily life, the social arrangements that are ordinarily perceived as just and immutable must come to seem both unjust and mutable.
~ Frances Fox Piven
My life is like tofu—it's what gets added that makes it interesting.
~ Angela Johnson
A man so various that he seem'd to beNot one, but all mankind's epitome:Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong;Was everything by starts, and nothing long:But, in the course of one revolving moon,Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
~ John Dryden
Well I am a Gemini.
~ Devendra Banhart
Time commences with mutable things; if they perish, it perishes with them.
~ baring gould sabine iv
Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.
~ William Boyd
Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain.
~ Chloe Benjamin