How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good. — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should… — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
Sometimes I even felt like he dated me as part of his plan, like they were going to have a checklist on… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Inspirational Psychology includes the practical application of identifying the thoughts and mistaken beliefs that cause us pain, along with a contemplative practice… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
I was really into films when I was younger, but I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started… — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
We must return immigration to a logical, orderly process where people fill out their applications and wait for approval. We must make… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The high number from the Middle East is only coincidence, he said. It is no particular choice on our part, ... We… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I have run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
...Lag...occurred between an initial discovery and its effective clinical application. We analyzed 111 such lags: 8% amounted to 0.1 to 1 year;… — Julius H. Comroe, Jr Copy Share Image
No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a rich desktop and a… — Jason Calacanis Copy Share Image
We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead.” — Christopher Crawford Copy Share Image
Domestic and supranational regulatory capture leads to two things: on the one hand, to an inequality spiral where the rich get richer… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
