"However, a piece of art has immutable quality.
For Mr. Reese, however, a real estate developer in Dallas, the appeal of the Yellowstone excursions lies in their immutable quality.
The group is defined from the outside, by the actions of others, and not by an immutable quality inherent in its members.
Over several decades, research by Dweck and others has differentiated between growth mindset -- believing you can cultivate your qualities and personality with effort -- and fixed mindset -- conviction that you have a limited amount of intelligence or talent, a certain personality, an immutable character.
The immutable and irreversible qualities of this decentralized technology prevent inventors from meddling with it once in use, for better or worse.
My fear is that if we call these kids 'prepsychopathic,' people are going to draw that inference: that this is a quality that can't be changed, that it's immutable.
Al Ries and Jack Trout, The 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing(1994)"Bring out the three old warhorses of competition – cost, quality, and service – and drive them to new levels, making every person in the organisation see them for what they are, a matter of survival".
What they have demonstrated, in contrast to the assumptions of the quality improvement literature, is that the terms of the seemingly scientific measurement enquiry are neither timeless nor immutable, but constituted by changing styles of enquiry [ 55, 63, 65, 93, 94].
It is unchangeable, immutable.
