Origination Quotes

Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life. (G. E. M. Anscombe)
The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones. View quote
Terry Winograd
It is willingly granted that by cultivation the origination of new varieties is favored, and that by man's labor many varieties are acquired which, under natural conditions, would be lost; but nothing justifies the assumption that the tendency to formation of varieties is so extraordinarily increased that the species speedily lose all stability, and their offspring diverge into an endless series of extremely variable forms. Were the change in the conditions the sole cause of variability we might expect that those cultivated plants which are grown for centuries under almost identical conditions would again attain constancy. View quote
Gregor Mendel
The school of art which Hulme started and Pound established.. diction, rhythm and metre were fully emancipated from formal artifice and the poet was free to act creatively under the laws of his own origination. View quote
Herbert Read
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge