Calculations Quote by Thomas Huxley

The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter…

— Leslie White

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what…

— Jeff Goodell

A lot of folks look at the political calculation and then determine the policy. I think that's backward.

— Patrick Murphy

“With Lola, everything was solvable. She was my independent variable.”

— Max Barry

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no…

— Aberjhani

“With great goals, comes the high costs; both fixed and variable. Time is the fixed cost; efforts, variable. Spend passionately.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of…

— Andrew Weil

We’re never gonna understand women. They’re way too complex. You’ve got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings .…

— Susane Colasanti

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in…

— Meg Whitman

The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that…

— Thomas Sowell

There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to operate. And…

— Guy Steele

“You should imagine variables as tentacles, rather than boxes. They do not contain values; they grasp them—two variables can refer to the same value.”

— Marijn Haverbeke