Scale Quotes
1006 quotes by 864 authors
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It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and…
— Brendan Gill
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The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top…
— Richard Neal
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Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted…
— Jacques Pepin
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I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the…
— Jim Parsons
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I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I…
— Donna Shalala
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If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn…
— George Saunders
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Entities are beings that are dead. They are the lowest beings on the evolutionary scale because they don't even know they are dead. They are…
— Frederick Lenz
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Entities have died, but what they seek is life again. They miss it. They want to experience food again, basic things. They are low on…
— Frederick Lenz
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If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to…
— Nicholas Stern
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This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things…
— Tavis Smiley
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I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that…
— Gabrielle Union
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I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've…
— Scott Westerfeld
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For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart…
— Duncan Jones
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Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as…
— Charles C. Mann
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Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual…
— Paul Davies
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I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do…
— Aziz Ansari
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The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with…
— Neal Stephenson
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Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.
— Robert Harris
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As I noted in my article "Comparing LTO-6 to Scale-Out Storage for Long-Term Retention," in these situations tape is an ideal storage type. Data on…
— George Arthur Crump
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Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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