Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.
There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.
An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.
Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated.
Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss.
I'm very interested in variations.
It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed
Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?
My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling.
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.
We must understand variation.
Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.
Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.
It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.
I am a great believer in variations on the routine.