The distinction between liberty and licentiousness is a repetition of the Protean doctrine of implication, which is ever ready to work its ends by varying its shape
Quotes about protean (3 Quotes)
This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.