Discrete Quotes
41 Discrete quotes by 39 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.
— Mark Twain
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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 Høeg
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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
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...[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
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
— Salman Rushdie
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the…
— George Oppen
Who Wrote These Discrete Quotes
39 authors contributed a total of 41 Discrete Quotes, led by these top contributors: