Quotes About Selection

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

It's very confusing choosing between different systems. So I'd like to begin by looking at some of the factors you should consider to help you make the right choice.

Ett val som bygger på nätverksteori kan vara sjuhundra gånger effektivare och mer ändamålsenligt [än ett slumpmässigt urval].

Space is going to be the greatest genetic quality filter since the dark ages.

The principle of inertia and the notion of natural selection eliminated the necessity of attributing meaning to facts, but they did not demonstrate that meaning does not exist.

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.

Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says.

Mandelbrot's theoretical results fit very closely the word distribution in many actual languages, indicating that there is a certain natural selection among them, and that the form of a language which survives by the very fact of its use and survival has been driven to take something not too remotely resembling an optimum form of distribution.

The interview itself is normally conducted by a board of three to five people.

natural selection may be able to explain the survival of a species, but it cannot explain the arrival of a species.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.

A menudo me pregunto por qué nos gustan unas personas y no otras. Y sobre este tema tengo mi propia teoría: existe una forma armónica e ideal a la que de manera instintiva tiende nuestro cuerpo. Escogemos en los otros aquellos rasgos que podrían cumplir con ese ideal. El objetivo de la evolución es meramente estético y nada tiene que ver con ninguna adaptación. A la evolución lo que le interesa es la belleza, alcanzar la máxima perfección de cada forma

Dear brothers, we give you the right to choose your death.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

Prendere le distanze dal proprio lavoro, sia nello scatto che durante la selezione, è un imperativo, seppur inumano!

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

For while we may debate our freedom to choose, there is no doubt that we are not free not to choose.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Do you want some of this cheese, or shall we just go walking?

La competizione non è per tutti e soprattutto non seleziona i migliori, solo i meno sensibili.

Drawing things is a kind of lovemaking, so the subject should be chosen carefully.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.