Constructor Quotes

Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it? Ford: We're safe. Arthur: Oh good. Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet. Arthur: Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.

If salvation and help are to come, it is through the child ; for the child is the constructor of man.

One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could build anything beginning with the letter 'n'.

Devotees who say that À la recherche du temps perdu reminds them of a cathedral should be asked which cathedral they mean. It reminds me of a sandcastle that the tide reached before its obsessed constructor could finish it; but he knew that would happen, or else why build it on a beach?

One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.

Constructores, los Fregones, los Embolsadores, los Cocineros, los Mapistas, los Docs, los Aradores, los Carniceros. Y los Corredores,

If I asked you where the hell we were,” said Arthur weakly, “would I regret it?” Ford stood up. “We’re safe,” he said. “Oh good,” said Arthur. “We’re in a small galley cabin,” said Ford, “in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.” “Ah,” said Arthur, “this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn’t previously aware of.

Emotions are not reactions to the world. You are not a passive receiver of sensory input but an active constructor of your emotions. From sensory input and past experience, your brain constructs meaning and prescribes action. If you didn’t have concepts that represent your past experience, all your sensory inputs would just be noise. You wouldn’t know what the sensations are, what caused them, nor how to behave to deal with them. With concepts, your

Such an AI might also be able to produce a detailed blueprint for how to bootstrap from existing technology (such as biotechnology and protein engineering) to the constructor capabilities needed for high-throughput atomically precise manufacturing that would allow inexpensive fabrication of a much wider range of nanomechanical structures.

...Ezio Longo, inmigrante de primera generación en el país, arquitecto sin título y constructor de oficio, quien se había propuesto fundar un imperio sobre cemento y acero y a los treinta y cinco años ya lo tenía casi consolidado

We’re safe,” he said. “Oh good,” said Arthur. “We’re in a small galley cabin,” said Ford, “in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.” “Ah,” said Arthur, “this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn’t previously aware of.

This is your captain speaking, so stop whatever you’re doing and pay attention. First of all I see from our instruments that we have a couple of hitchhikers aboard. Hello, wherever you are. I just want to make it totally clear that you are not at all welcome. I worked hard to get where I am today, and I didn’t become captain of a Vogon constructor ship simply so I could turn it into a taxi service for a load of degenerate freeloaders. I have sent out a search party, and as soon as they find you I will put you off the ship. If you’re very lucky I might read you some of my poetry first. “Secondly, we are about to jump into hyperspace for the journey to Barnard’s Star. On arrival we will stay in dock for a seventy-two-hour refit, and no one’s to leave the ship during that time. I repeat, all planet leave is canceled. I’ve just had an unhappy love affair, so I don’t see why anybody else should have a good time. Message ends.

If I asked you where the hell we were,’ said Arthur weakly, ‘would I regret it?’ Ford stood up. ‘We’re safe,’ he said. ‘Oh good,’ said Arthur. ‘We’re in a small galley cabin,’ said Ford, ‘in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.’ ‘Ah,’ said Arthur, ‘this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn’t previously aware of.

there can be only one type of person: universal explainers and constructors.

We’re in a small galley cabin,’ said Ford, ‘in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.

Only God was able to create a free creature, and freedom could only arise by the act of creation. Freedom is not the result or product of evolution. Freedom and product are disparate ideas. God does not produce or construct. He creates. We used to say the same for artists, for the artist who constructs does not create a personality but rather a poster of man. A personality cannot be constructed. Maybe sooner or later, during this century or after a million years of continued civilization, man will succeed in constructing an imitation of himself, a kind of robot or monster, something similar to its constructor. This human-looking monster may look very much like man, but one thing is certain: it will never have freedom. Without a divine touch, the result of evolution would not have been man, but rather a developed animal, a super-animal, a creature with a human body and intelligence but without a heart and personality.

We might add here that later on the constructors had an article published in a prominent scientific journal under the title of “Recursive β—Metafunctions in the Special Case of a Bogus Polypolice Transmogrification Conversion on an Oscillating Harmonic Field of Glass Bells and Green Gig, Kerosene Lamp on the Left to Divert Attention, Solved by Beastly Incarceration-Concatenation,

With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the ethical and intellectual criticism of theology once more recommenced, and arrived at a temporary resting-place in the confessions of the various reformed Protestant sects in the sixteenth century; almost all of which, as soon as they were strong enough, began to persecute those who carried criticism beyond their own limit. But the movement was not arrested by these ecclesiastical barriers, as their constructors fondly imagined it would be; it was continued, tacitly or openly, by Galileo, by Hobbes, by Descartes, and especially by Spinoza, in the seventeenth century; by the English Freethinkers, by Rousseau, by the French Encyclopaedists, and by the German Rationalists, among whom Lessing stands out a head and shoulders taller than the rest, throughout the eighteenth century; by the historians, the philologers, the Biblical critics, the geologists, and the biologists in the nineteenth century, until it is obvious to all who can see that the moral sense and the really scientific method of seeking for truth are once more predominating over false science. Once more ethics and theology are parting company.

Just as the theory of information led to the theory of universal computation, this theory I am envisaging could be the seed for designing a machine that generalises the universal computer, which scientists call the universal constructor.

assignment in addition to the copy constructor: Click here to view code image Vector& Vector::operator=(const Vector& a)       // copy assignment {     double* p = new double[a.sz];     for (int i=0; i!=a.sz; ++i)          p[i] = a.elem[i];     delete[] elem;        // delete old elements     elem = p;     sz = a.sz;     return *this; } The name this is predefined in a member function and points to the object for which the member function is called. 4.6.2. Moving Containers We can control copying by defining

Immutable objects are simple. They can only be in one state, which is carefully controlled by the constructor. One of the most difficult elements of program design is reasoning about the possible states of complex objects. Reasoning about the state of immutable objects, on the other hand, is trivial. Immutable objects are also safer. Passing a mutable object to untrusted code, or otherwise publishing it where untrusted code could find it, is dangerous — the untrusted code might modify its state, or, worse, retain a reference to it and modify its state later from another thread. On the other hand, immutable objects cannot be subverted in this manner by malicious or buggy code, so they are safe to share and publish freely without the need to make defensive copies.

No era extraño que Roma tuviese ahora tan pocos artesanos buenos, comerciantes y constructores. El monstruoso gobierno chupaba el fruto de su trabajo por medio de impuestos en favor de una canalla perezosa, gruñona y devoradora mantenida a expensas del Estado.

Vogon Constructor Fleets. Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy—not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

However, since we have never observed the construction of a world or observed the world constructors, we have no way of knowing what causal relations might be involved in such a project; all we can do is construct hypotheses, without any way of judging which of these are more or less likely.

Some guns were fired to give notice that the departure of the balloon was near. ... Means were used, I am told, to prevent the great balloon's rising so high as might endanger its bursting. Several bags of sand were taken on board before the cord that held it down was cut, and the whole weight being then too much to be lifted, such a quantity was discharged as would permit its rising slowly. Thus it would sooner arrive at that region where it would be in equilibrio with the surrounding air, and by discharging more sand afterwards, it might go higher if desired. Between one and two o'clock, all eyes were gratified with seeing it rise majestically from above the trees, and ascend gradually above the buildings, a most beautiful spectacle. When it was about two hundred feet high, the brave adventurers held out and waved a little white pennant, on both sides of their car, to salute the spectators, who returned loud claps of applause. The wind was very little, so that the object though moving to the northward, continued long in view; and it was a great while before the admiring people began to disperse. The persons embarked were Mr. Charles, professor of experimental philosophy, and a zealous promoter of that science; and one of the Messrs Robert, the very ingenious constructors of the machine. {While U.S. ambassador to France, writing about witnessing, from his carriage outside the garden of Tuileries, Paris, the first manned balloon ascent using hydrogen gas by Jacques Charles on the afternoon of 1 Dec 1783. A few days earlier, he had watched the first manned ascent in Montgolfier's hot-air balloon, on 21 Nov 1783.}

Why do people have mid-life crises? It’s because they don’t know who they are. And suddenly they realise time is running out. They have to fight to be authentic, to be REAL. All the time, people are having breakdowns brought on by identity crises. They have lived their lives in bad faith. They have been fakes and phonies, frauds and impostors. They have impersonated human beings rather than actually being human beings. They have spent their whole lives in a state of alienation from themselves and from God. Isn’t it time we saved the human race from the controllers, the brainwashers, the identity constructors? People can never be free until they are free to become who they really are. As Nietzsche said, “We want to become those who we are – the new, the unique, the incomparable, those who impose on themselves their own law, those who create themselves!” Is that not the formula for a new, free world, a world of Supermen and Superwomen, a transformed world of individuals on the path to divinity? Revalue all values. Abolish Abrahamism. Abolish the control machine.

Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen.It is the same with dreams.

Furious, the beast writhed and wriggled its iterated integrals beneath the King’s polynomial blows, collapsed into an infinite series of indeterminate terms, then got back up by raising itself to the nth power, but the King so belabored it with differentials and partial derivatives that its Fourier coefficients all canceled out (see Riemann’s Lemma), and in the ensuing confusion the constructors completely lost sight of both King and beast. So they took a break, stretched their legs, had a swig from the Leyden jug to bolster their strength, then went back to work and tried it again from the beginning, this time unleashing their entire arsenal of tensor matrices and grand canonical ensembles, attacking the problem with such fervor that the very paper began to smoke. The King rushed forward with all his cruel coordinates and mean values, stumbled into a dark forest of roots and logarithms, had to backtrack, then encountered the beast on a field of irrational numbers (F1) and smote it so grievously that it fell two decimal places and lost an epsilon, but the beast slid around an asymptote and hid in an n-dimensional orthogonal phase space, underwent expansion and came out, fuming factorially, and fell upon the King and hurt him passing sore. But the King, nothing daunted, put on his Markov chain mail and all his impervious parameters, took his increment Δk to infinity and dealt the beast a truly Boolean blow, sent it reeling through an x-axis and several brackets—but the beast, prepared for this, lowered its horns and—wham!!—the pencils flew like mad through transcendental functions and double eigentransformations, and when at last the beast closed in and the King was down and out for the count, the constructors jumped up, danced a jig, laughed and sang as they tore all their papers to shreds, much to the amazement of the spies perched in the chandelier-—perched in vain, for they were uninitiated into the niceties of higher mathematics and consequently had no idea why Trurl and Klapaucius were now shouting, over and over, “Hurrah! Victory!!

Stoddert named Joshua Humphreys Chief Naval Constructor of the United States, and authorized him to oversee naval shipbuilding operations throughout the country. But Humphreys’s efforts to impose his authority on shipwrights in other cities met with strong resistance. Different techniques, styles, and designs prevailed in the various seaports, and much of the terminology had evolved into regional dialects that outsiders found unintelligible. To ask a master builder to take direction from another master builder, in another region, was contrary to every tradition of the profession. Humphreys now proposed to bring openness and transparency to an enterprise that had always been shrouded in the medieval secrecy of the craftsmen’s guild. Shipbuilding is a “noble art,” he told a colleague. “I consider it my duty to convey to my brother builders every information in my power.

Vogon Constructor Fleets. Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy – not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. ‘The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat, and the best way to irritate him is to feed his grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. ‘On no account allow a Vogon to read poetry at you.

So they rolled up their sleeves and sat down to experiment -- by simulation, that is mathematically and all on paper. And the mathematical models of King Krool and the beast did such fierce battle across the equation-covered table, that the constructors' pencils kept snapping. Furious, the beast writhed and wriggled its iterated integrals beneath the King's polynomial blows, collapsed into an infinite series of indeterminate terms, then got back up by raising itself to the nth power, but the King so belabored it with differentials and partial derivatives that its Fourier coefficients all canceled out (see Riemann's Lemma), and in the ensuing confusion the constructors completely lost sight of both King and beast. So they took a break, stretched their legs, had a swig from the Leyden jug to bolster their strength, then went back to work and tried it again from the beginning, this time unleashing their entire arsenal of tensor matrices and grand canonical ensembles, attacking the problem with such fervor that the very paper began to smoke. The King rushed forward with all his cruel coordinates and mean values, stumbled into a dark forest of roots and logarithms, had to backtrack, then encountered the beast on a field of irrational numbers (F_1) and smote it so grievously that it fell two decimal places and lost an epsilon, but the beast slid around an asymptote and hid in an n-dimensional orthogonal phase space, underwent expansion and came out fuming factorially, and fell upon the King and hurt him passing sore. But the King, nothing daunted, put on his Markov chain mail and all his impervious parameters, took his increment Δk to infinity and dealt the beast a truly Boolean blow, sent it reeling through an x-axis and several brackets—but the beast, prepared for this, lowered its horns and—wham!!—the pencils flew like mad through transcendental functions and double eigentransformations, and when at last the beast closed in and the King was down and out for the count, the constructors jumped up, danced a jig, laughed and sang as they tore all their papers to shreds, much to the amazement of the spies perched in the chandelier—perched in vain, for they were uninitiated into the niceties of higher mathematics and consequently had no idea why Trurl and Klapaucius were now shouting, over and over, "Hurrah! Victory!!

Las leyes bancarias estadounidenses actuales permiten que el banco repita este ejercicio otras siete veces. El constructor tendría al final 10 millones de dólares en su cuenta, aunque el banco sigue sin tener más que 1 millón de dólares en su cámara acorazada. A los bancos se les permite prestar diez dólares por cada dólar que posean realmente, lo que significa que el 90 por ciento de todo el dinero de nuestras cuentas bancarias no está cubierto por monedas y billetes reales.2 Si todos los cuentacorrentistas del Barclays Bank pidieran de repente su dinero, el Barclays se hundiría de inmediato (a menos que el gobierno se decidiera a salvarlo). Lo mismo ocurre con el Lloyds, el Deutsche Bank, Citibank y todos los demás bancos del mundo. Esto se parece a un gigantesco sistema Ponzi, o piramidal, ¿no es verdad? Pero, si es un fraude, entonces toda la economía moderna es un fraude. El hecho es que no es un engaño, sino más bien un tributo a las asombrosas capacidades de la imaginación humana. Lo que permite que los bancos (y la economía entera) sobrevivan y prosperen es nuestra confianza en el futuro. Esta confianza es el único respaldo para la mayor parte del dinero del mundo.

Example 6-11. Java Example of Enforcing a Singleton with a Private Constructor public class MaxId {    // constructors and destructors    private MaxId() {       <-- 1       ...    }    ...    // public routines    public static MaxId GetInstance() {       <-- 2       return m_instance;    }    ...    // private members    private static final MaxId m_instance = new MaxId();       <-- 3    ... } (1)Here is the private constructor. (2)Here is the public routine that provides access to the single instance. (3)Here is the single instance.

Class Quality Abstract Data Types Have you thought of the classes in your program as abstract data types and evaluated their interfaces from that point of view? Abstraction Does the class have a central purpose? Is the class well named, and does its name describe its central purpose? Does the class's interface present a consistent abstraction? Does the class's interface make obvious how you should use the class? Is the class's interface abstract enough that you don't have to think about how its services are implemented? Can you treat the class as a black box? Are the class's services complete enough that other classes don't have to meddle with its internal data? Has unrelated information been moved out of the class? Have you thought about subdividing the class into component classes, and have you subdivided it as much as you can? Are you preserving the integrity of the class's interface as you modify the class? Encapsulation Does the class minimize accessibility to its members? Does the class avoid exposing member data? Does the class hide its implementation details from other classes as much as the programming language permits? Does the class avoid making assumptions about its users, including its derived classes? Is the class independent of other classes? Is it loosely coupled? Inheritance Is inheritance used only to model "is a" relationships—that is, do derived classes adhere to the Liskov Substitution Principle? Does the class documentation describe the inheritance strategy? Do derived classes avoid "overriding" non-overridable routines? Are common interfaces, data, and behavior as high as possible in the inheritance tree? Are inheritance trees fairly shallow? Are all data members in the base class private rather than protected? Other Implementation Issues Does the class contain about seven data members or fewer? Does the class minimize direct and indirect routine calls to other classes? Does the class collaborate with other classes only to the extent absolutely necessary? Is all member data initialized in the constructor? Is the class designed to be used as deep copies rather than shallow copies unless there's a measured reason to create shallow copies?

JS, constructors are just functions that happen to be called with the new operator in front of them. They are not attached to classes, nor are they instantiating a class. They are not even special types of functions. They’re just regular functions that are, in essence, hijacked by the use of new in their invocation.

tú eres el constructor de tu destino, todo lo que hiciste ayer es lo que te tiene donde estas hoy.

The ship left the construction bay of the factory craft with most of its fitting-out still to be done. Accelerating hard, its course a four-dimensional spiral through a blizzard of stars where it knew that only danger waited, it powered into hyperspace on spent engines from an overhauled craft of one class, watched its birthplace disappear astern with battle-damaged sensors from a second, and tested outdated weapon units cannibalized from yet another. Inside its warship body, in narrow, unlit, unheated, hard-vacuum spaces, constructor drones struggled to install or complete sensors, displacers, field generators, shield disruptors, laserfields, plasma chambers, warhead magazines, maneuvering units, repair systems and the thousands of other major and minor components required to make a functional warship. Gradually,

The string returned by __repr__ should be unambiguous and, if possible, match the source code necessary to recreate the object being represented. That is why our chosen representation looks like calling the constructor of the class, e.g. Vector(3, 4).

There are four patterns of invocation in JavaScript: the method invocation pattern, the function invocation pattern, the constructor invocation pattern, and the apply invocation pattern.

The world’s greatest thinkers have an insatiable curiosity and actively seek new experiences that can increase the amount of their creative constructor pieces. They travel, make new acquaintances, try various hobbies, attend conferences and seminars, and read books, magazines and blogs.

Object-oriented languages use the paradigm of classes. In simplest terms, a class includes both data and the functions to operate on that data. You can create an instance of a class, also called an object, which will have all the data members and functionality of its class. Because of this, you can think of a class as being like a template, with each object being a specific instance of a particular type of class. For example, suppose you have a very simple class called Person, which has three fields (a data member is called a field in Java) and one method (a function is called a method in Java). The following code illustrates creating a simple class. For example, the first thing inside the beginning brace ({) is a constructor, a special kind of method that creates an instance of a class and sets its fields with their initial values.

I knew Acre like the back of my hand. I loved every opportunity I had to explore the old city there. The walls reminded me a bit of the walls of Tiberias. Later, I learned that they had a common constructor. I would suggest to everyone who visited me at the  kibbutz, a short tour in Acre or in the immediate vicinity of the  kibbutz. Over time I developed a regular route, which included the Acre and the Bahai Gardens in the south, and up to Nahariya and Rosh Hanikra in the north –  stunning views of western Galilee. Everything was new to me. I was relieved by the presence of my youth members from Tiberias. They were in the picture in front of me, helping me with their advice on how to capture Jacob when he was carrying the Lohamei Hageta'ot Musiem, somewhere over the aqueduct of Shomrat.   ***

PROVECHO TUYO Lo primero a tener en cuenta es que el Subconsciente actúa continuamente, jamás descansa. Está activo día y noche, actuemos o no con él. Tu Subconsciente es el constructor de tu cuerpo, pero tú no puedes notarlo ni sentirlo, tú no puedes notar conscientemente esos procesos internos. Ocupa a tu consciente para lograr y tener una vida mejor, y asegúrate de que todos tus pensamientos que tienes normalmente estén basados sobre todo lo que es bello, verdadero, justo y bienhechor. En este mismo instante empieza a creer firmemente, sin ningún lugar a dudas, con una enorme fe, y convencido con todo tu alma y corazón, de que tu consciente alimenta permanentemente a tu Subconsciente, y éste expresa y realiza en forma de hechos y acontecimientos lo que él ha recibido, y que reproduce y expresa siempre lo que es tu forma habitual de pensar, que lo mismo que el agua toma siempre la forma del recipiente que la contiene, el principio vital que está en ti, pasa siempre a través de ti según la naturaleza de tus pensamientos. Afirma siempre que la presencia curativa de tu subconsciente pasa a través de ti, así como la armonía, la paz, la salud, la alegría, la abundancia, el éxito, la felicidad. Cree firmemente que pasa a través de ti, para vivificarte,para inspirarte y para enriquecerte. Él te responderá muy exactamente según tus afirmaciones. Te será dado según tu fe. Algo fundamental que alguna vez hemos oído: «todo lo que tú pidas en la oración, cree firmemente que ya lo has recibido y lo recibirás

Querido Pat: Viniste a verme mientras tallabas una figurilla en madera, y me dijiste: -¿ Por qué no me haces algo?- Te pregunté qué querías y respondiste: -Una caja-. -¿Para qué?- -Para poner cosas en ella-. -¿Que cosas?- -Todo lo que tengas-, dijiste. Bien, aquí tienes la caja que querías. He puesto en ella casi todo lo que yo tenía, y todavía no está llena. Hay en ella dolor y excitación, sentimientos buenos y malos, y malos pensamientos y buenos pensamientos..., el placer del constructor, algo de desesperación y el gozo indescriptible de la creación. Y todavía la caja no está colmada.

El papel del editor se entiende mejor hoy como uno de mediación entre un producto y el consumidor, entre el contenido y el lector. El valor de los editores, apunta Bhaskar, «reside en ser constructores de comunidades».30

Models can also be a very useful training aid for both designers and seamen but there is no evidence of any being made after the Inflexible of 1876 whose model was used to train constructors up to the Second World War.

Time*SΦRT(Return cpyConstructor SΦRT{*Ifin.OrderedSet});

Bakiginin. En carelio, idioma que se habla desde el golfo de Finlandia hasta el mar Blanco, la tristeza del constructor de paredes. El contraste entre la necesidad de alejar a todo el mundo de tu vida, y la imposibilidad de hacerlo.

Inside its warship body, in narrow, unlit, unheated, hard-vacuum spaces, constructor drones struggled to install or complete sensors, displacers, field generators, shield disruptors, laserfields, plasma chambers, warhead magazines, maneuvering units, repair systems and the thousands of other major and minor components required to make a functional warship.

class parameters. The Scala compiler will gather up these two class parameters and create a primary constructor that takes the same two parameters.

In Java, classes have constructors, which can take parameters; whereas in Scala, classes can take parameters directly.

Scala, constructors other than the primary constructor are called auxiliary constructors

-¿Quién puede construir un jardín? Eso es muy caro, ¿no? -Todos somos constructores de jardines. Podemos diseñarlos y levantarlos con nuestras manos o simplemente dibujarlos. -El guarda le guiñó un ojo-. Un jardín es arte. -Manoteó en el aire-. Es el arte de modelar la naturaleza, darle forma y expresar su belleza para disfrutar de ella. Los jardines nos hacen humanos. Los hay oscuros, que dan miedo, y otros son divertidos y escandalosos. Y algunos bailan y otros son tranquilos y tan viejos como el mundo.

Ni la agencia de gestión de catástrofes FEMA "ni los investigadores de incendios e incendios provocados ni los constructores pudieron recoger pruebas para su posterior examen en el laboratorio.

El cuarto punto del amilenarismo es que la Tierra Prometida es la Tierra nueva. Abraham no buscaba un pedazo de tierra que permaneciera bajo la maldición de la Caída; él buscaba una ciudad cuyo constructor y hacedor es Dios. No será hasta la nueva creación que el Abraham resucitado, con todos sus hijos glorificados, morará para siempre con Dios en la Tierra en perfecta paz.

They are ‘universal constructors’.

while humans transform inhospitable environments like the biosphere into support systems for themselves. And, while every other organism is a factory for converting resources of a fixed type into more such organisms, human bodies (including their brains) are factories for transforming anything into anything that the laws of nature allow. They are ‘universal constructors’.

The fact that everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge. ‘Problems are soluble.’ – The ‘perspiration’ phase can always be automated. – The knowledge-friendliness of the physical world. – People are universal constructors. – The beginning of the open-ended creation of explanations. – The environments that could create an open-ended stream of knowledge, if suitably primed – i.e. almost all environments. – The fact that new explanations create new problems.

Volveré mañana en el corcel del viento. Volveré. Y cuando vuelva, vosotros os estaréis yendo: Vosotros, los alcabaleros de la muerte, los centuriones en acecho bajo la gran ojiva de la puerta, los constructores de ataúdes que al medir el cuerpo amarillo de los que se van, con la cinta de metro y medio de los alfayetes, decís siempre, ¡cómo crecen los muertos! ¡Oh, sí! Los muertos crecen. El último traje que se hicieron, al amortajarlos ya les viene pequeño. Crecen. Y apenas los entierran, rompen los tablones de pino y los catafalcos de acero; crecen después en la tumba, fuera de la caja, abren la tierra como las semillas del centeno y ya, bajo el sol y la lluvia, en el aire, sueltos, y sin raíces, siguen y siguen creciendo. Yo me voy a crecer con los muertos.

And, while every other organism is a factory for converting resources of a fixed type into more such organisms, human bodies (including their brains) are factories for transforming anything into anything that the laws of nature allow. They are ‘universal constructors

Spaceship Earth ‘The biosphere is a life-support system for humans.’ Constructor A device capable of causing other objects to undergo transformations without undergoing any net change itself. Universal constructor A constructor that can cause any raw materials to undergo any physically possible transformation, given the right information.

Would we seem like insects to it? This can seem plausible only if one forgets that there can be only one type of person: universal explainers and constructors. The idea that there could be beings that are to us as we are to animals is a belief in the supernatural.

Parece que es el mundo quien nos está haciendo esto. Pero ¿es el mundo o soy yo, por como estoy hecho? Al final soy un destructor, no un constructor.

As more and more investable money is managed without regard to research, evaluation, corporate governance, quality of management and an actual assessment of long-term prospects, and instead is delegated to the index-constructors and the purveyors of index products, what does that trend mean for capitalism? Growth? Innovation?” he asked rhetorically.

A passionate emotion that rises among all. Count down to the near future, beside the path of forgetfulness. Can anyone know what’s around? Will they feel safe, or will they rot? Can they see the truth beyond the lines of darkness? It’s an unwanted feeling, an emotion, a burden. To many, this path granted them unlimited action, for unlimited access to time. Where they were able to go in and out of pathways, affecting lives without the sensation of being sorry for their actions. Only now had the creators decided to insert a notion to stop all this madness. Decided upon many to reach out and create a different valiant world, where no one would be able to manipulate, but things didn’t go to plan. The Rainbow–created to order the existence of all multi-coloured creatures, but what the creators had forgotten to realise was that, it could be deployed, and reconstructed. The product, no longer being the essence of survival, but now an item for destruction, which had to be demolished. However, no one was powerful enough to smash it. It was released among the human race and everyone hated the moment it brewed into something different, something more damaging than what it would have been if it was only used as their source of life. Now, the world, in a peril, must try to survive the next generations of constructors of the drug, now known as Boxsaje…

Again a machine naturally obeys strictly causal laws: but we can understand it properly only if we know and have investigated the purpose of its constructor. In this case teleology supplements the causal law.

Había sido una mala idea desde el principio, desde 1982, poner el control de todas las máquinas en manos de una fuente central. Como es natural, la premisa básica parecía buena: con el acelerado desgaste de la capa de ozono, demasiada gente había empezado a comportarse de manera irracional y era necesario resolver el problema por algún medio inmune a la enloquecedora radiación ultravioleta que ahora bañaba la Tierra. En aquel momento, el señor Ordenador les había parecido la respuesta. Pero, por desgracia, el señor Ordenador había absorbido demasiadas locuras de sus constructores humanos y había, al igual que ellos, empezado a manifestar episodios psicóticos.

(Sócrates): Para nosotros ya existía, Glaucón, una imagen de la justicia, que nos ha sido de mucha utilidad: no es otra que la de considerar que quien es zapatero por naturaleza debe dedicarse a hacer zapatos y no a otra cosa, y que quien es constructor habrá de emplear su tiempo en las construcciones, y de igual modo todos los demás.

Así era en la construcción, actuaban como generales del ejército, enérgicos y exigentes, muy puntuales en sus juntas, limpios y ordenados en sus trabajos de gabinete; los mejores ingenieros civiles que ha tenido la ciudad, según mi apreciación.

Si la respuesta a estas preguntas es que no se tiene dinero y que falta experiencia, entonces se está equivocado; ésas son excusas de perdedores, y no van con un estudiante de ingeniería, porque cuando alguien ya está estudiando es un ganador. Aunque eso sólo tú y yo lo sabemos.

In reality, the difference between Sparta and Athens, or between Savonarola and Lorenzo de’ Medici, had nothing to do with their genes; nor did the difference between the Easter Islanders and the imperial British. They were all people – universal explainers and constructors. But their ideas were different. Nor did landscape cause the Enlightenment.

sólo un silbido de serpientes acompaña tu viaje a las cenizas / yo estoy aquí / me perfumo / me ciño las ropas de la fiesta / pienso en la fortaleza en ruinas donde una vez pensé en los generales / los soldados / los constructores / los destructores / los esclavos / los amos / los poderosos / los mendigos / las plañideras / los recién casados / los padres y los hijos / que alguna vez se alojaron encima de la tierra / y se alojan ahora en la tierra / pasaron de la alta luz al polvo / como vos / ibn abi musa / como yo pasaré / como el odio que nos ató / con furias / sus terrores /

In constructor theory, the only transformations that can be caused to occur are those for which there exists a constructor.

A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.

Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.

IT acts more as a conductor than a constructor for “doing more with innovation,” to conduct an information-mature, customer-centric digital organization.

A common mistake that can let the this reference escape during construction is to start a thread from a constructor. When an object creates a thread from its constructor, it almost always shares its this reference with the new thread, either explicitly (by passing it to the constructor) or implicitly (because the Thread or Runnable is an inner class of the owning object). The new thread might then be able to see the owning object before it is fully constructed. There's nothing wrong with creating a thread in a constructor, but it is best not to start the thread immediately. Instead, expose a start or initialize method that starts the owned thread. (See Chapter 7 for more on service lifecycle issues.) Calling an overrideable instance method (one that is neither private nor final) from the constructor can also allow the this reference to escape. If

If you are tempted to register an event listener or start a thread from a constructor, you can avoid the improper construction by using a private constructor and a public factory method, as shown in SafeListener in Listing 3.8. Listing

An immutable object is one whose state cannot be changed after construction. Immutable objects are inherently thread-safe; their invariants are established by the constructor, and if their state cannot be changed, these invariants always hold.

First, A ship of the finest make and model available shall be furnished to carry the constructors home. 2nd, The said ship shall be laden with various cargo as here specified: diamonds—four bushels, gold coin—forty bushels, platinum, palladium, and whatever other ready valuables they happen to think of—eight bushels of each, also whatever mementos and tokens from the Royal Apartments the signatories of this instrument may deem appropriate. 3rd, Until such time as the said ship shall be in readiness for takeoff, every nut and bolt in place, fully loaded and delivered up to the constructors complete with red carpet, an eighty-piece send-off band and children's chorus, an abundance of honors, decorations and awards, and a wildly cheering crowd—until then, no King. 4th, That a formal expression of undying gratitude shall be stamped upon a gold medallion and addressed to Their Most Sublime and Radiant Constructors Trurl and Klapaucius, Delight and Terror of the Universe, and moreover it shall contain a full account of their victory and be duly signed and notarized by every high and low official in the land, then set in the richly embellished barrel of the King's favorite cannon, which Lord Protozor, Master of the Royal Hunt, shall himself and wholly unaided carry on board—no other Protozor but the one who lured Their Most Sublime and Radiant Constructors to this planet thinking to work their painful and ignominious death thereby. 5th, That the aforesaid Protozor shall accompany them on their return journey as insurance against any sort of double-dealing, pursuit, and the like. On board he shall occupy a cage three by three by four feet and shall receive a a daily allowance of humble pie with a filling made of that very same sawdust which Their Most Sublime and Radiant Constructors saw fit to order in the process of indulging the King's foolishness and which was subsequently taken to police headquarters by unmarked balloon. 6th and lastly, The King need not crave forgiveness of Their Most Sublime and Radiant Constructors on bended knee, since he is much too beneath them to deserve notice.

But then the constructors unexpectedly showed up after a leisurely breakfast, to supervise the work, and nothing suited them: this material, for instance, was no good, and that engineer was an absolute idiot, and they had to have a revolving magic lantern in the main hall, one with four pneumatic widgets and a calibrated cuckoo clock on top—and if the natives here didn't know what a widget was, so much the worse for them, considering that the King was no doubt most impatient for his release and would (when he could) deal harshly with anyone who dared to delay it.

Normally we create instance attributes by assigning them in class __init__ constructor methods, but this isn’t the only option.

When a new object is created, Java allocates storage for it, sets instance variables to their default values, and calls the constructor method for the class to do whatever application-level setup is required.

Los propios Estados se convirtieron en elementos clave de esta competencia exacerbada, tratando de atraer una parte mayor de las inversiones extranjeras mediante la creación de las condiciones fiscales y sociales más favorables a la valorización del capital. De este modo, por lo tanto, han contribuido a la creación de un orden que los somete a nuevas exigencias, que los lleva a comprimir los salarios y los gastos públicos, a reducir «derechos adquiridos», que se consideran demasiado costosos, a debilitar los mecanismos de solidaridad, que no entran en la lógica de los seguros privados. Al mismo tiempo actores y objeto, cada uno de ellos, de la competencia mundial, constructores y auxiliares del capitalismo financiero, los Estados están cada vez más sometidos a la ley de hierro de una dinámica de la mundialización que se les escapa en gran medida. Los dirigentes de los gobiernos y de los organismos internacionales (financieros y comerciales) pueden sostener, pues, que la mundialización es un fatum, mientras al mismo tiempo no dejan de obrar continuamente a favor de la creación de esa supuesta «fatalidad».

But we have to reconsider our whole approach to the history of the past—have we so taught it through ‘Drum and Trumpet’ that the warrior and not the law-giver, the destroyer and not the constructor, has been the arch type of mankind in the eyes of our boys and girls?

A fundamental problem with serialization is that its attack surface is too big to protect, and constantly growing: Object graphs are deserialized by invoking the readObject method on an ObjectInputStream. This method is essentially a magic constructor that can be made to instantiate objects of almost any type on the class path, so long as the type implements the Serializable interface. In the process of deserializing a byte stream, this method can execute code from any of these types, so the code for all of these types is part of the attack surface.

Again, though, they may be created by assignment anywhere a reference to the instance appears, even outside the class statement. Normally, all instance attributes are initialized in the __init__ constructor method; that way, later method calls can assume the attributes already exist.

Recognizing the merits of the child does not diminish the authority of the father and the mother for when they come to realize that they are not the constructors, but merely the helpers of this construction, then they will be able to do their duty better; they will help the child with a greater vision.

To reduce the number of methods that must be aware of it, a reference to the context can be saved in most of the system’s major objects. In the example of Figure 7.2(d), the class containing m3 stores a reference to the context as an instance variable in its objects. When a new object is created, the creating method retrieves the context reference from its object and passes it to the constructor for the new object. With this approach, the context is available everywhere, but it only appears as an explicit argument in constructors.

Mr. Darby considered this. “I sometimes forget how curious and perceptive the four of you are.” A chickadee jumped out of the bushes and landed on the old man’s shoulder. Mr. Darby politely brushed it off, then turned and headed down the breezeway, saying, “Let’s find a spot protected from curious eyes, yes?” The scouts followed him down the brick path and stepped into one of the small buildings. Mr. Darby waited to speak until the door fell closed behind them. “If Blizzard and Little Bighorn disappear from the Waterford Zoo, there certainly needs to be a good reason. Our Constructor—our fake protestor—will provide that reason. We hope people will believe

A literal is syntax that allows you to define a reference value without explicitly creating an object, using the new operator and the object’s constructor.

Dreams don't accomplish overnight. It's like constructors doing constructions on mile-long bridges, highways, buildings, and towers.

Dreams don't accomplish overnight. It's like constructors doing constructions on mile-long bridges, highways, buildings, and towers. It takes many years of commitment, development, hard-work before achieving the best in life.

Never forget, you see the dreamworld, not the dreamer, you see the construct, not the constructor, you see the World, not the World Builder. The World Builder is the unseen Cosmic Mind, made of unseen monadic minds, the cells of the Hive. The Big Bang was nothing but an explosion of dream content from every individual monadic mind to create a single, collective dream – aka the World.

El florido pensil es la narración vital y quintaesenciada de lo que fue la (des)educación de varias generaciones de españoles de la posguerra en clave nacionalcatólica, un espejo fiel del fascismo postizo del régimen y de la básica estulticia de constructores y divulgadores de su ideología.

David Steinberg suggested another culprit in the twenty-first-century gender gap: computers. Steinberg, a teenage puzzle prodigy, published his first Times crossword at age fourteen. In June 2012, he launched the Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project to digitize every crossword in the New York Times since the puzzle’s debut in 1942, and by 2015, he had finished every available puzzle. Steinberg combed the Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project and XWord Info for data on constructors and discovered that the decline of female constructors correlated exactly with the rise of crossword software.

Crossword Puzzle Challenges for Dummies (2004), the crossword guide in the notorious “for Dummies” series, is somewhat surprisingly one of the most authoritative and comprehensive resources, since it’s by Patrick Berry, one of the top constructors alive. (Though the “for Dummies” version is currently out of print, Berry has the rights to the PDF, which he’s retitled the Crossword Constructor’s Handbook, and which he now sells for would-be constructors to download.) Also, around the crossword’s centenary in 2013, T. Campbell compiled an exhaustive monograph, On Crosswords: Thoughts, Studies, Facts, and Snark about a 100-Year-Old Pastime, that presents a taxonomy of basically every kind of themed and themeless puzzle in existence. Fortuitously for me, in near-eerie parallel timing with my adventure in crossword construction, the Times’s Wordplay blog ran a series called “How to Make a Crossword” in 2018. The

There are two ways to begin a puzzle: themed, with the major answers constellating around a mini-riddle; or themeless, usually with longer clues, and no help from a little internal narrative. If I were going to create a themeless puzzle, I’d start with what constructors call a “seed patch.” Seeds are the two or three ne-plus-ultra answers of the themeless, the ones that inspired the whole thing, and without which the puzzle would have no reason to exist. A seed might be a triple or quadruple stack of fifteen-letter words. Or a seed patch might be a few somewhat unrelated but buzzy bits of a recent news cycle. Prolific constructor Brendan Emmett Quigley publishes a new themeless puzzle on his website every Monday, mostly aimed at crossword junkies for whom the easy Times Mondays don’t cut it. Quigley’s themelesses often serve as something of a digest of the latest memes.

Nearly all constructors use a program such as CrossFire or Crossword Constructor,

The artist is a constructor of mirrors through which humanity can recognize their own beauty.