Quotes About Modification

If you change the way data are used, it is perhaps hardly surprising that behavior in collecting those data changes—a feedback phenomenon of the kind we examine in detail in chapter

Though few if any of the gamers had seen pictures of Romero, they figured he was the guy wearing the black T-shirt with the militaristic Doom logo on the front and the bold white words "Wrote It" on the back. The shirt was Romero's own modification. After id had printed up a bunch of promotional tees, he suggested they add the phrase "Wrote It" for their own. He even sent his mother a Doom shirt with the words "My Son Wrote It" on the back.

Times do keep changing - thank God.

The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.

Now I'm in the process of fine turning.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Adaptation is the key to survival.

Whenever new shorts cuts open the old roads get freer

Mr. Collins had only to change from Jane to Elizabeth—and it was soon done—done while Mrs. Bennet was stirring the fire.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

A] partial repeal, or, as the bon ton of the court then was, a modification, would have satisfied a timid, unsystematic, procrastinating Ministry, as such a measure has since done such a Ministry. A modificatio is the constant resource of weak, undeciding minds.

That was my lesson. I needed to act differently.

Supongo que la gente no ha parado de alterar las normas desde que los griegos inventaron la democracia o, incluso, desde que el hombre inventó la rueda.

There are always three factors involved in survival, no matter how toxic the environment. One is the physical reality; the second is dumb luck; and the third is the response of the organism, which can often modify the influence of the first two. The relationship of these three factors can be imagined as dials on an amplifier, with survival depending on the overall mix.