Quotes About Selection

ever observed that a choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom" and that the

Your greatest power is your capacity to choose.

The behavior of this program is counterintuitive because selection among overloaded methods is static, while selection among overridden methods is dynamic.

Darwin- I think the theory is: out of 'chaos' arises something that resembles 'design'. But it's all random.

You can never make a wrong choice and get a right result.

if Darwin were alive today, he would likely revise a significant part of his great works, because the basic logic of evolution has shifted away from capital-n Nature toward two new core drivers: Unnatural selection* Nonrandom mutation*

A glass of water, Mr. Wizard? Certainly. Still or sparkling? Ice or lukewarm? Lemon or lime? French or Italian? When Hamilton had added, Bathroom or kitchen?

Wear or wrap?

Let's say your life depended on it. You have to choose or you'll die." "Which one would you choose?" Caitlin said. "I asked you first." "Okay," Caitlin said. "I guess I'd take Von." Good, Vix thought. Because she had already chosen Bru for herself.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

desconocidas. Existen mentes que parecen de piedra: inmóviles, monolíticas, duras, impenetrables y rígidas, donde la experiencia y el conocimiento se han solidificado de manera sustancial e irrevocable con el paso de los años. Estas mentes ya están determinadas de una vez por todas, ya no aprenden nada distinto a lo que saben, porque su procesamiento obra por acumulación y no por selección.

At the outset the matter of Ted's taste arose.

Simplicity–or rather discrimination of vision–is the trademark of the true Post-Impressionist. He observes and then selects what is essential.

We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.

Timothy said there were just those people who, when it all came down to that final moment and you were leaving Earth on a spaceship that could fit only so many people, got On the Ship with you. They were familiar. Part of you. Necessary, for various reasons. (152)

Well, I'm not quite certain yet, young Mr. Fitzpatrick. I am considering the name Willow Hills. Or perhaps Maple Falls. What would you suggest?

ladies' clothing aisle—strategically located just past the automotive section—where Avery and Madeline selected some of the ugliest shorts and T-shirts Nicole had ever seen.

One afternoon he started to talk about his collection of books. Of 3000 books, he found only 30 worth keeping. We were all ready to take notes, expecting Mies to tell us the titles of those 30 books. Mies, instead, with a big smile on his face told us they were important only to him and we must find our own 30 by ourselves.

No hay elecciones equivocadas cuando las alternativas no son oportunidades.

People don't choose between things, they choose between descriptions of things.

Firmly resolve that you will hire the candidate whose final score is the highest, even if there is another one whom you like better

A vast amount of research offers a promise: you are much more likely to find the best candidate if you use this procedure than if you do what people normally do in such situations, which is to go into the interview unprepared and to make choices by an overall intuitive judgment such as "I looked into his eyes and liked what I saw.