Behavior Quotes - Page 20

The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.

The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.

Since Reagan, it's almost impossible to get funding for research on sexual pleasure. You can find sexual behavior research, but not sexual pleasure. And let alone lesbian or homosexual sexuality.

I went to Congress to change the policies of our country. I did not go to change the behaviors of members of Congress.

Requirement completeness: Requirements are sufficient to distinguish the desired behavior of the software from that of any other undesired program that might be designed. .

How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.

Netflix will know everything. Netflix will know when a person stops watching it. They have all of their algorithms and will know that this person watched five minutes of a show and then stopped. They can tell by the behavior and the time of day that they are going to come back to it, based on their history.

If you want a particular behavior from someone else, try spotlighting those times when he or she is already doing it.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.

Economics has increasingly become the science of human behavior in general, and it's all the more unlikely to think that it can possibly be value-free - and, in fact, it isn't. Economics rests on un-argued assumptions that need to be examined.

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

My concern is that somebody would make a decision against Christianity because of Mr. Trump's behavior.

The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.

A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one aligns ones inner and outer behavior, submitting ones ego or will to the will of a higher power.

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

A friend in the true sense is not a person who passively nods approval of our conduct or ignores improper behavior. A friend is a person who cares.

Behaviorism is sometimes criticized as encouraging unethical behavior. For example, most organizations offer rewards for increasing revenue and threat of punishment, perhaps firing if you don't "make your number."

I have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior.

If you don't have a conscience, what is your behavior like? Apparently, if you don't have a conscience, if you don't really . . . love, then the only thing that's left for you is the game - it's about controlling things.

Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

Love is a context, not a behavior.

With a Trump administration we don't know enough yet to make predictions, but if past behavior is any indication, I am not encouraged.

I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior.