Parameters Quotes

• With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

  John von Neumann

  Elephants, Four, Fit

  Attributed to John von Neumann by Enrico Fermi in "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson in "Nature", Issue 427 (p. 297), www.nature.com. January 22, 2004.

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• I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

  Enrico Fermi

  Elephants, Four, Remember

  "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson, "Nature" Volume 427, p. 297, January 22, 2004.

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• Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Writing, Science, Fiction

  Interview with David Duncan, www.physics.emory.edu.

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• Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea I've ever had grew out of work itself. Sign onto a process and see where it takes you. You don't have to invent the wheel everyday. Today you will do what you did yesterday, tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually, you will get somewhere.

  Chuck Close

  Inspiration, Ideas, Yesterday

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• I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.

  Jay Leno

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

  Immanuel Kant

  Reason, Should, Declaring

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• Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

  Jeremy Irons

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• For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?

  Johnny Depp

  Cartoon, Action, Get Away

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the game and think it's important, but I can't get excited about that myself.

  Brad Warner

  Character, Thinking, Games

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.

  Ice Cube

  Jobs, Challenges, Challenge Yourself

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

  Luc Ferrari

  Technology, Thinking, Ideas

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• It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Moving, Ideas

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, People, Bully

  Interview by Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stuck, Ifs

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

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• [Buzzing at the Sill] deals with the margins of America, a lot of parts unseen. Well, parts that are seen and familiar to a lot of the populace, but unseen when it comes to the parameters of what mainstream news and popular culture and Hollywood reflects.

  Peter van Agtmael

  America, Unseen, Hollywood

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• Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

  Philippe Starck

  Honesty, Two, Elegance

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• Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some of the model builders in the global warming Hypothesis and the many parameters in the model that need to be introduced. However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

  David Douglas

  Successful, Opposites, Data

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• A lot of black men have problems being emotionally vulnerable because of the boundaries and parameters that have been put onto them by society.

  Daniel Kaluuya

  Men, Black, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical or commercial parameters so much as the desire for a dream that humans have attempted to project onto an object.

  Philippe Starck

  Dream, Desire, Trying

  Graphis: International Journal for Graphic and Applied Art, 1996.

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• I think everyone must settle for what is in the parameter of their own rights. No one must have an evil intention toward the territorial benefit or integrity of other nations.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Integrity, Thinking, Rights

  Interview with David Ignatius, www.washingtonpost.com. September 23, 2012.

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• Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Real, School

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• It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and you can do anything you want. It's always easier when you have a parameter, when you have a limit. You can work within the limit and push it and walk the line, but when you're given absolutely no limits, it's harder. You must really think. It's more challenging.

  David LaChapelle

  Thinking, Challenges, Lines

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• At the first meeting of the newly constituted Warren Commission, [former CIA Director] Allen Dulles handed out copies of a book to help define the ideological parameters he proposed for the Commission's forthcoming work. American assassinations were different from European ones, he told the Commission. European assassinations were the work of conspiracies, whereas American assassins acted alone.

  Peter Dale Scott

  Book, Directors, Different

  "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK". Book by Peter Dale Scott, June 22, 1996.

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• To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.

  Francis Collins

  Hands, Knives, Littles

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• It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Years, Europe, Growth

  Source: thesaker.is

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