Permutations Quotes

The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

Without question, love in its various permutations is what we need more of in this world. The idea that the concept of marriage will be sullied by same-sex marriage is ridiculous. Heterosexuals haven't been doing that well at it on their own.

There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to exhibit a pervasive irregularity.