Variation Quotes

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

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.