Quotes About Modification

If we define technology as a modification of the environment, then we must recognize the complementary principle of technique: how that modification is used in performance. New objects change behavior, but not always as inventors and manufacturers imagine. And changes in behavior of people, as of bears and dogs, inspire new hardware, which in turn engenders more innovations.4

Everything was at once overwhelmingly the same and ever so slightly different.

As the position of the letter 'i' changes in the MARiTAL, it becomes MARTiAL.

brought other changes, too, and his people had

One of our greatest advantages as human beings is that as long as we are alive, we can change.

Change in all things is sweet.

that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing.

I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter.

There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

I ran a 'loan modification machine.'

I'm not good at updating gear.

I think I could have adapted to left-handed golf better to right-handed batting.

Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.

It's very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I prefer to work with things that are custom made for my kind of animation.

You have to change on the fly. You have to adapt. It's what I do. It's what wins for me.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.

But doesn't add something to what has come before; but takes something away. At its most daring, it can feel like a Bat Turn, a 180-degree spin int the Batmobile. Make that a But Turn.

Mathematically, morphogenetic fields can be modified in terms of attractors within basins of attraction.