Richard J. Roberts

DNA is the master blueprint for life and constitutes the genetic material in all free-living organisms and most viruses. RNA is the genetic material of certain viruses, but it is also found in all living cells, where it plays an important role in certain processes such as the making of proteins.

English Scientist

Karen Civil

The blueprint, for me, was having an understanding of self because this business will try to make you somebody other than yourself or make you change with the times. A lot of times, people will want you to do everything for free, work for free, to be down to do this after you paid your dues.

American Businesswoman

John Niven

A novel, of course, is a fully self-contained work of art. You pick it up off the shelf, open it, and there it is - a whole universe waiting for you to enter. A screenplay is just a blueprint for making a movie. Until the movie is actually filmed, the script really means nothing.

Scottish Author

Richard Ford

There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

American Author

Joan D. Vinge

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

Rich Mullins

I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, 'This is how you're supposed to do it.' And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, 'Here's the good stuff in life. How do you get there?

American Musician

Drew Barrymore

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

American Actress

Robin Coste Lewis

Poetry is this gorgeous, complex history rendered in verse and song, a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air.

American Poet

Jonathan Schell

The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.

Napoleon Hill

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Used when describing steps to achieve a particular goal or outcome.

Action Plan

It can be used metaphorically to describe any detailed plan, not just physical construction.

Metaphorical Use

Often suggests careful thought and preparation went into the plan.

Preparation Context

Originally referred to technical drawings by engineers or architects, in a distinctive blue color.

Architectural Origins

Refers to a historical method of copying drawings before modern printing technology.

Historical Technique

Now metaphorically used to mean any plan or model, beyond its original architectural context.

Symbol for Plans

 Or it could output the blueprint to a really nifty technology, and when we implement it, it has some surreptitious side effect that the A.I. had planned. The point here is that we should not be confident in our ability to keep a superintelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever. Sooner or later, it will out.

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 And in those autonomous looms, he gained control. He could now make fabrics that were more complex and more sophisticated than the ones they were able to do by hand. But also, by winning that industrial war, he laid out what has become the blueprint of automation.

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 have no tolerance for the imperfections of actual human beings. With his novel, Swift established a blueprint for dystopia, imagining a world where certain trends in contemporary society are taken to extremes, exposing their underlying flaws.

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 is to give them a blueprint of the design that he wants to build. So all these experiments you've seen thus far, all these demonstrations, have been done with the help of motion-capture systems. So what happens when you leave your lab,

Robots that fly ... and...

 in the computer-aided design the digital blueprints we can put complexity inside this is a venus flower basket it's a glass made of silica a glass sponge incredible intricacy but now we can do that kind of intricacy too we can build

Creating a Bio-Industrial...

 of strength and resilience. We are expanding the human complexity on these margins, and we are creating freedom on these margins. And we don't have any blueprints. We're creating a world that we have literally never seen before;

A queer vision of love...

 The bacteria in our guts can break down food the body can't digest, produce important nutrients, regulate the immune system, and protect against harmful germs. We don't yet have the blueprint

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 Then bars all others. The fertilised egg is still only a spark, but the mix of male and female genes it contains will be the blueprint for the building of a new and unique baby elephant.

Elephant Mating,...

 that are both compassionate and creative, using and leveraging our irreplaceable brains and hearts. So there you have a blueprint of coexistence for humans and AI. AI is serendipity.

How AI can save our...

 the rest of the world will look to Capetown for what we did wrong our doing wrong and what we did right and our doing right and that will be the blueprint going forward for eternity

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