Best 292 quotes in «structure quotes» category

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.

It is much more accurate to identify the factors of production as know-how (that is genetic information structure), energy, and materials, for, as we have seen, all processes of production involve the direction of energy by some know-how structure toward the selection, transportation, and transformation of materials into the product

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces

It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.

I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled

It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However, I wanted to incorporate into the project as a whole the jostling of time-frames I would feel as I set up my tripod on various rocky promontories.

I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.

Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

Music is structure out of Chaos

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings.

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become free. They become masters of jargon and power structures.

On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

Our objective in taking these actions is to create a lean, agile structure, with streamlined and stable processes that will unleash DaimlerChrysler's full potential.

Play is free movement within a more rigid structure.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.