It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications.… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing… — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
To try to explain something as "I love it" and "It's fun" would be like describing the sunset over the middle of… — Tara Dakides Copy Share Image
What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
This word gets overused in describing actors but I think it applies to Mike [Tyson] in this case - he was totally… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
People are already describing it [Skyfall] as the best Bond flick ever, and I really think it will be. — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides… — David Hasselhoff Copy Share Image
There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals… — Tommy Tenney Copy Share Image
You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I wish my prose to be transparentI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image