Asymmetric Quotes

#1. The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

Louis Pasteur

#2. I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare.

Chelsea Manning

#3. Asymmetric intensity of the motives to avoid losses and to achieve gains shows up almost everywhere.

Daniel Kahneman

#4. if N is large enough, it is virtually impossible to deduce p and q from N, and this is perhaps the most beautiful and elegant aspect of the RSA asymmetric cipher.

Simon Singh

#5. While it is clear that today's micropowers cannot go toe-to-toe with the world's military powers, they are increasingly able to "deny" victory to the larger, more technologically advanced players in an asymmetric conflict - and that speaks to a fundamental change in how power operates.

Anonymous

#6. They are always motivated to go up-market, and almost never motivated to defend the new or low-end markets that the disruptors find attractive. We call this phenomenon asymmetric motivation. It is the core of the innovator's dilemma, and the beginning of the innovator's solution.

Clayton M Christensen

#7. My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.

{Commenting about Louis Pasteur's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.}

Jean-Baptiste Biot

#8. In his mind World War III represents the final self-destruction and imbalance of an asymmetric world, the last suicidal spasm of the dextro-rotatory helix, DNA. The human organism is an atrocity exhibition at which he is an unwilling spectator ...

J.G. Ballard

#9. Here we come upon a terrible facet of ethically asymmetric warfare: when your enemy has no scruples, your own scruples become another weapon in his hand.

Sam Harris

#10. Yet all attackers benefit from the asymmetric nature of the technology: the defender must build a perfect wall to keep out all intruders, while the offense need find only one chink in the armor through which to attack.

Marc Goodman

#11. If the polymer chain assumes a helicoidal conformation in the crystalline state, and if it does not contain asymmetric carbon atoms, it can be expected that either helices of the same sense, or, in equal ratio, helices of opposite sense are represented in the lattice.

Giulio Natta

#12. Once a molecule is asymmetric, its extension proceeds also in an asymmetrical sense. This concept completely eliminates the difference between natural and artificial synthesis. The advance of science has removed the last chemical hiding place for the once so highly esteemed vis vitalis.

Hermann Emil Fischer

#13. For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex - asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

Austin Osman Spare

#14. The universe is asymmetric.

Louis Pasteur

#15. Zimmermann employed a neat trick that used asymmetric RSA encryption in tandem with old-fashioned symmetric encryption.

Simon Singh

#16. Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

Paul Rand

#17. The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.

Dale T. Mortensen

#18. People only complain about things they can do something about.

Jack Canfield

#19. Alex, the only one you should be giving a second chance is you.

Alyson Noel

#20. She did not feel anything so boring as beautiful. She felt fierce.

Meredith Duran

#21. Many fathers go their entire lives without announcing how sexy their son's old girlfriends are.

Mallory Ortberg

#22. I think timelessness is a very important factor in whatever I do. That's what makes a classic.

Patricia Field

#23. The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

Dalton Trumbo

#24. THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.

Ellen Hopkins

#25. She put a wedge beside my heart
And then she brought the mallet down
She sang no song to guide her work
I lost my heart without a sound

Shannon Hale

#26. I'd know you in the dark," he said. "From a thousand miles away. There's nothing you could become that I haven't already fallen in love with.

Rainbow Rowell

#27. But I told my grandmother, and she listened, and then she said, "Don't ever tell this story to anybody else. If you tell this story to anybody else, something terrible will happen. Something terrible will happen to our family." And then she had a lot to do. (174)

Robert Goolrick

#28. As a professional journalist, I've been interviewing people for almost thirty years. And the one thing I've learned from all those interviews is that I am always going to be surprised.

Hector Tobar

#29. To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.

Jackie Cooper

#30. I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.

Qin Shi Huang

#31. I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.

Melanie Martinez