Real World Quotes

622 Real World quotes by 517 unique authors

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify… — David Gelernter
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition… — Tony Hoare
What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world… — Plato
The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he… — Aaron Patzer
What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter. — Joseph Barbera
Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it… — Gaston Bachelard
Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in… — Suzette Haden Elgin
In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that… — Unknown Author
I am single for two reasons. First, I don't date girls who watch Real World because they already think they know me. Second, a lot… — Steven Hill
If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate. — Martin Mull
SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single… — Dave Barry
It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics,… — Hermann Weyl
The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments.… — Jane McGonigal
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered — Guy de Maupassant
I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant… — Edward Tufte
There is nothing mysterious about space-time. Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event. We cannot experience anything or conceive of anything that… — Wynn Bullock
Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike… — Brian Stableford
So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where they're forced to… — Steven James
Essentialists hope that when students leave school, they will possess not only basic skills and an extensive body of knowledge, but also disciplined, practical minds,… — William Bagley
You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful things when they're… — Tony Millionaire
For economist the real world is often a special case. — Edgar Fiedler
We are good if our peers think we’re great. But we are great if the real world thinks we’re good. — David Droga
Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less… — Jim Horning
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. — Jasper Fforde
As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world… — Erica Jong

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