Mutation Quotes

You started to see people publish threat vectors, you started to see multiple mutation viruses and that definitely has raised the level of threat dramatically... We're defiantly seeing the early inflection curve. - Francis Costello

You have an equivalent to random mutation, except it's better... It's directed mutation, people constantly trying to improve the software. - Eric Raymond

You don't have to animate 5,000 different permutations. You author one behavior and then [the character model] stumbles back, he'll try to grab, if there's nothing there he'll fall over. With this kind of A.I. and these kind of behaviors it creates these situations where no two players' experiences are ever the same. - Peter Hirschmann

When you talk to people who play, the fantasy-baseball player tends to be more ardent than the fantasy-football player. Baseball is a game that is played every day, and baseball as a game in fantasy has so many more permutations than does fantasy football. - Don Levy

What we can learn from historical plant domestication will benefit our ongoing and future effort to domesticate energy crops that will be equally important to the long-term sustainability of our society. It is remarkable how the earliest farmers could have selected a single mutation in DNA to develop a major food crop of the world. - Tao Sang

We've known for some time that smokers are under oxidative stress, because the smoke itself is an oxidant that creates free radicals and cell mutations. The immune response of the body also tends to cause inflammation, and this inflammation is one reason that smoking relates not only to lung cancer but other serious health problems such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. - Maret Traber

We know the virus is changing. We're watching little mutations occur all the time -- that's what flu viruses do. - Dr. Julie Gerberding