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Quotes About Modification

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
~ Tom Stoppard
I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
~ Gordon Getty
When people ask me about my routine, it's hard to say because I change it every week.
~ Hafthor Bjornsson
Any time you take a movie to stage, you can't do the same thing; it's not gonna work.
~ Taylor Louderman
I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.
~ Haley Bennett
I think the biggest thing is, you have to understand the different rules. There are so many rules that change from college to the NBA. Change of pace is a big thing, also.
~ Karl-Anthony Towns
Whatever patterns are introduced will be continuously modified through the exceedingly variegated and subtle interchange of subjective meanings that goes on.
~ Peter L. Berger
The most depressing thing about life as a programmer, I think, is if you're faced with a chunk of code that either someone else wrote or, worse still, you wrote yourself but you no longer dare to modify. That's depressing.
~ Peter Seibel
The keyword const doesn't turn a variable into a constant! A symbol with the const qualifier merely means that the symbol cannot be used for assignment. This makes the value read-only through that symbol ; it does not prevent the value from being modified through some other means internal (or even external) to the program.
~ Peter van der Linden
Virtually all animals—single-celled organisms as well as humans—are conditioned to react in predictable ways, some of which we can modify and some of which are more difficult to change.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
Religion long ago modified the character of ethical discussion by undermining the original egalitarianism.
~ Philip Kitcher
The same song can have drastically different feels and personalities just by changing some minor things. A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.
~ Matt Berninger
Instead of modifying their beliefs, institutions, politics, and property systems to fit their environment, humans enter habitats and alter them to suit their cultures.
~ Jon T. Coleman
Toda mi vida modifica el libro que estoy leyendo.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Application, resignation, and chance had gone into the writing; I saw, however, that Daneri's real work lay not in the poetry but in his invention of reasons why the poetry should be admired. Of course, this second phase of his effort modified the writing in his eyes, though not in the eyes of others.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Comprendí que el trabajo del poeta no estaba en la poesía; estaba en la invención de razones para que la poesía fuera admirable; naturalmente, ese ulterior trabajo modificaba la obra para él, pero no para otro.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Comprendí que el trabajo del poeta no estaba en la poesía; estaba en la invención de razones para que la poesía fuera admirable; naturalmente, ese ulterior trabajo modificaba la obra para él, pero no para otros.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is continuing to try the same approach to solve a problem but expecting different results.
~ Aaron David Miller
A good scientist," Gideon explained, "modifies his operational hypotheses to accord with fresh data.
~ Aaron Elkins
I am of the opinion that there is nothing which has been produced by the will of man which cannot in its turn be altered by another human will.
~ Adolf Hitler
I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
~ Ian Mckellen
People change all the time.
~ Tony Shalhoub
When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.
~ Astro Teller
'Atlanta' changes genres a lot per episode.
~ Hiro Murai