Combinatorial Quotes

#1. I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

Steven Pinker

#2. Back in 1962, when I had by accident become the supervisor of Roberto Celis in Argentina, it occurred to me that antibody diversity might arise from the joining by disulphide bridges of a variety of small polypeptides in combinatorial patterns.

Cesar Milstein

#3. I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

Stanislaw Lem

#4. The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.

Joel Spencer

#5. Our habits and our institutions, from language to cities, are constantly changing, and the mechanism of change turns out to be surprisingly Darwinian: it is gradual, undirected, mutational, inexorable, combinatorial, selective and in some vague sense progressive.

Matt Ridley

#6. I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

Damien Hirst

#7. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#8. There's nothing special about your fear.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. True, unconditional, selfless love can soften the hardest heart, cleanse the filthiest soul, and quench the driest spirit." ~The Great Luna

Quinn Loftis

#10. They can't make me into a joiner without my permission.

Matthew Quick