Discrete Quotes

41 quotes by 39 authors

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size,… — Johannes Stark
In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction. — Roberto Unger
Those revolutions are not strictly incessant; they occur in discrete rushes which are separated from each other by spans of comparative quiet. The process as… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in patterns of life… — Mildred Blaxter
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to… — Oliver Stone
Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with a… — David Letterman
We needed to take a discrete population to give people the confidence that if we can end veterans' homelessness , we can attack chronic homelessness,… — John Carlos Frey
When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the… — Robert Lanza
Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here… — Julian Baggini
Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the… — Douglas Rushkoff
If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion. — Mark Twain
Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing… — Peter HÃ¸eg
They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For… — Cormac McCarthy
...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small,… — Dan Ariely
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete. — Salman Rushdie
Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the… — John Archibald Wheeler
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off… — Tom Chatfield
In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between… — Michael Arndt
Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and… — David A. Bednar
Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up… — Kara Swisher

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