Quotes About Variation

At any time of day, hundreds of different versions of Facebook are running on the Internet - with a changed color here, a moved button there - and the user response to each variation is measured. And the same is done with advertising.

A trade is a trade, but it's different as far as summertime versus in the season.

Sex is a story you know the ending of. More or less the same story with the same ending, every time. Yet we want to keep hearing it, the way a child listens to a fairy tale, vigilant for variation.

By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.

The facts appear to be mutating every forty minutes. Like bacteria.

What one person takes away from a book might be very different from what the next person takes away -- almost as if the story is altered depending on who's reading, where, and when. But then, maybe all books are like that -- a little different each time they are opened. The real question is who's doing the changing: the story, or the reader.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.

Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

In the target seats we have been going like a bomb and there is a great deal of confidence. I think there's going to be a great deal of regional variation throughout the UK.

Experience shows that exceptions are as true as rules.

Everything changes and nothing remains still.

Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.

none of it is quite what it was this time the previous day.

If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music.

When I get a role similar to the ones I have played earlier, I try to do something different with the part.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

Deus é capaz de criar partículas de matéria de diversos tamanhos e formas...e talvez de diferentes densidades e forças e, portanto, de variar as leis da natureza e fazer mundos de diversos tipos em várias partes do universo. Pelo menos não vejo contradição alguma em tudo isso.

There are more ways to think about experience than there are experience to think about.

Case is the inflectional variation in a noun7 that encompasses various syntactical functions or relationships to other words. Or, put more simply, case is a matter of form rather than function. Each case has one form but many functions.

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

Best Medicine."30 "If laughing is so good," Kataria says he thought to himself, "why not start a laughter club?" (Roughly one-fourth of the good doctor's sentences seem to include some variation of the "Why not?" formulation.)

Causally, noise is nowhere; statistically, it is everywhere.