Modification Quotes

• Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Time
  • Form
  • Modification

• If we define technology as a modification of the environment, then we must recognize the complementary principle of technique: how that modification is used in performance. New objects change behavior, but not always as inventors and manufacturers imagine. And changes in behavior of people, as of bears and dogs, inspire new hardware, which in turn engenders more innovations.

  

  Edward Tenner
  • Technology
  • Environment
  • Imagine

• The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In the end, however, the species is temporary; it has no "eternal life." After existing for a certain period, it either dies or is converted by modification into other forms.

  

  Ernst Haeckel
  • Species
  • Succession
  • Reproduction

• Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.

  

  Bertrand Meyer
  • Software
  • Extension
  • Modification

• Hubble wasn't designed to look at objects in our solar system, but after it was launched, astronomers realized that with just a little bit of modification to the software, it could look at solar system objects.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Solar System
  • Astronomers
  • Hubble

• When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Location

• I advocate the modification of the '67 borders to let about half of the Israeli stay in Palestine.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Borders
  • Palestine
  • Israeli

• God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

  

  Nicolas Malebranche
  • Air
  • Speak
  • Sound

• Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Government
  • Behavior
  • Modification

• I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

  

  Mikhail Kalashnikov
  • Different
  • Rejected
  • Modification

• Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Talent
  • Genius
  • Common Sense