Quotes About Modification

Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.

Everybody changes. With John things changed on a daily basis.

When you have large systems, it becomes almost impossible to make even very simple changes.

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

Any systems can always be made better.

Tactics have changed a lot, but the standard is getting better.

We're going to try to tailor our offense to our player's ability.

Any show in its first season goes through multiple changes. There is little or no difference to changing the cast on a talk show.

The problem with traditional approaches to abstraction and encapsulation is that they aim at complete information hiding. This characteristic anticipates being able to eliminate programming from parts of the software development process, those parts contained within module boundaries. As we've seen, though, the need to program is never eliminated because customization, modification, and maintenance are always required-that is, piecemeal growth.

What do you think? More cheese? Less cheese? Different cheese?

Strategy] is more than a science: it is the application of knowledge to practical life, the development of thought capable of modifying the original guiding idea in the light of ever-changing situations; it is the art of acting under the pressure of the most difficult conditions. HELMUTH VON MOLTKE, 1800–1891

Strategy] is more than a science: it is the application of knowledge to practical life, the development of thought capable of modifying the original guiding idea in the light of ever-changing situations; it is the art of acting under the pressure of the most difficult conditions.

History directing evolution.

L'homme, guidé par le sens de la beauté, transforme l'évènement fortuit (une musique de Beethoven, une mort dans une gare) en un motif qui va ensuite s'inscrire dans la partition de sa vie. Il y reviendra, le répétera, le modifiera, le développera comme fait le compositeur avec le thème de sa sonate.

In pursuit of health, happiness and power, humans will gradually change first one of their features and then another, and another, until they will no longer be human.

we might fiddle with Homo sapiens to such an extent that we would no longer be Homo sapiens. Bionic

ever since the Cognitive Revolution Homo sapiens has been able to revise its behaviour rapidly in accordance with changing needs.

Even in the heyday of frozen concentrate, the popularity of orange juice rested largely on its image as the ultimate natural beverage, fresh squeezed from a primordial fruit. But the reality is that human intervention has modified the orange for millenniums, as it has almost everything people eat.

am someone who needs to adjust to everything.

In the dynamic world in which we live, every job is or should be in a constant state of change. Some jobs change faster than others. Each of us has to keep adjusting our work to keep up with the changes in technology, operations, and regulation.

Valkyrie stood there and waited for her to start making sense. "There is a vegetable-plant hybrid we've been working on, modifying the genes and receptors, mutating the proteins and acids so that they are, in effect, neurotransmitters. Our work on the synapses alone has been quite illuminating." Valkyrie stood there and waited for her to start making sense.

Those who are to change significantly that which they freshly encounter must themselves be changed by the changing of it.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.