Francisco Costa

When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions or collections or meet an artist. It's all a compilation. Every moment, at all times, all this information. Then all this information disappears, and it shows up later in the process.

Brazilian Designer

Jackie DeShannon

No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.

American Musician

Simon Sebag Montefiore

I'm the last person who would end up doing something that needs meticulous compilation of facts. It's totally against my character. I live by impulse. I'm totally ill-suited to writing history books.

British Historian

Camryn Manheim

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

American Actress

Thomas Steinbeck

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.

American Writer

Flying Lotus

I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

American President

Sean Evans

Taking mass transit is an uphill battle and one wrong move can put you on the latest Worldstarhiphop fight compilation.

American Entertainer

Pink

Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.

Connor Franta

On Common Culture, you'll find coffee, clothing, and compilations. So many C's!

A compilation typically includes diverse items chosen for a specific purpose or theme.

Varied Contents

Items in a compilation are selected carefully, not just randomly thrown together.

Not Random

Compilations often revolve around a central theme, topic, or artist.

Thematic Unity

In computing, 'compilation' is a technical process and might confuse non-tech people.

Technical Term

In computing, precise terms are used; 'compilation' is not interchangeable with 'running' code.

Precise Language

The goal of compilation in computing is to create an executable program from code.

Outcome Oriented

 And so we developed tools and vehicles for families to tell the fuller story of their loved one so they would be understood as more than just a case file. They started making what we call social biography packets, which is families making a compilation of photos and certificates and letters

Community-powered...

 meant how long it would take us to finish the rest but that became our objective so of course in order to document all 39 species that means going everywhere that all the birds-of-paradise occur so this is the global range of the birds of paradise it's the the compilation of all the

Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...

 of temperature change that go back hundreds of years, and we put them together. Here's a synthetic diagram. There's a whole family of curves here. But what's we're looking at the last thousand years of temperature on the planet. And there's five or six different compilations there,

Rob Dunbar: The threat...

 standing at the grave I owe those women who walk for three days to get water I owe you know my parents and you know all those colleagues and all those great editors and all those you know all those people that helped over the years you know we are a compilation of all that

Proof: Lynn Johnson on...

 We've had many Hindenburg. Well, we've never had Hindenburg moments with people, which is very important. Big difference. We've blown up quite a few rockets. So there's a whole compilation online that we put together and others put together, it's showing rockets are hard.

Elon Musk: A future...

 difficult to to say for anybody I would say the scientists have released this video in the hope that other researchers will see it and have the chance to videotape similar scenes it's hoped that a compilation of data and video evidence will help answer questions about our

Chimps "Mourn"...

 in the biosphere, in the atmosphere, in the ocean, showing these super-exponential trajectories characterizing an unsustainable path and announcing a phase transition. This diagram on the right shows a very beautiful compilation of studies

Didier Sornette: How we...

 Day to Night is about all the things, it's like a compilation of all the things I love about the medium of photography. It's about landscape, it's about street photography, it's about color, it's about architecture,

The passing of time,...

 labels in their place hundreds of small cassette shops around the horn of africa would record the music from the radio and sell it back to the public as cassettes they'd even do custom compilations on

The Secret Somali...

 itself and the creatures that we share this world with and with that I'd like to play the piece that will be one shot at night and then a compilation of the best of so thank you