Quotes About Variability

Design patterns should not be applied indiscriminately. Often they achieve flexibility and variability by introducing additional levels of indirection, and that can complicate a design and/or cost you some performance. A design pattern should only be applied when the flexibility it affords is actually needed.

but I was aware of the "case-by-case" approach and did not object.

martin learnt quickly to take every day as it came and never expect one day to be the same as the last

For a complex natural shape, dimension is relative. It varies with the observer. The same object can have more than one dimension, depending on how you measure it and what you want to do with it. And dimension need not be a whole number; it can be fractional. Now an ancient concept, dimension, becomes thoroughly modern.

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

You can be accepted in a film which is amazing, and the same person can be rejected in another film whose content does not resonate with people.

Freedom is relative.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.

De la misma manera que algunas mujeres cambian de aspecto regularmente, yo cambio de personalidad. ¿Qué personaje me sienta bien, cuál es el más deseado, cuál se pone de moda? Creo que la mayor parte de las personas hace lo mismo, simplemente no lo reconocen o en su defecto se afianzan en un solo personaje porque son demasiado perezosas o estúpidas para hacer el cambio.

happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness

The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing - because the next day it's out, and if we're stuck to it, we're out, too.

Whats fun about being an actress is you change all the time.

Nada, exceto o mutável, pode perdurar!

It is pure fatalism, undiluted by environmental variability. Good living, good medicine, healthy food, loving families or great riches can do nothing about. Your fate is in your genes. Like a pure Augustinian, you go to heaven by God's grace, not by good works. It reminds us that the genome, great book that it is, may give us the bleakest kind of self-knowledge: the knowledge of our destiny, not the kind of knowledge that you can do something about, but the curse of Tiresias.

There are few clearings in an elm forest and few vacancies on an oyster bed. Each vacancy will attract many thousands of applicants in the form of new seeds or larvae. Therefore, it does not matter that your young are good enough to survive. What matters is whether they are the very best. Sex gives variety, so sex makes a few of your offspring exceptional and a few abysmal, whereas asex makes them all average.

Whatever you can point to – a physical thing, a person, a thought, an emotion – … [a]ll of them change. Even memory shows constant flux and change.

In a complex world where people can be atypical in an infinite number of ways, there is great value in discovering the baseline.

Every audience is spread out along a bell curve of sophistication, and inevitably we'll bore a few at the top while baffling a few at the bottom; the only question is how many there will be of each.

Here's the fundamental problem: group identity can be fractionated right down to the level of the individual. That sentence should be written in capital letters. Every person is unique—and not just in a trivial manner: importantly, significantly, meaningfully unique. Group membership cannot capture that variability. Period.

There is nothing so certain that it cannot vary. Even the sun itself has its cycles of instability. Likewise, there is nothing so mutable that it cannot be fixed. Every revolution produces a new order. Every death is, simultaneously, a metamorphosis.

Cada persona es única y no solo de forma trivial, única de una forma importante, significativa y llena de significado. La pertenencia a un grupo no puede captar tal variabilidad. Y punto.