Application Quotes

• It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Doubt, May, Enigma

  "The Gold-Bug" (1843).

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• Learn diligence before speedy execution.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Execution, Diligence

  Trevor J. Fairbrother, Chiyo Ishikawa, Leonardo (Da Vinci.) (1997). “Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo Da Vinci's Legacy of Art and Science : [catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Seattle Art Museum, October 23, 1997, to January 4, 1998]”, University of Washington Press

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• Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Justice, Affair

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.464, Рипол Классик

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• There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

  Scott Adams

  Wisdom, Problem, Dilbert

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• Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

  James Whistler

  Glasses, Paint, Should

  Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler (2001). “Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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• One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

  Danica McKellar

  Beautiful, Art, Math

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• Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Ajax, Important, Development

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• We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Nice, Empowering, Machines

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• History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

  Irving Langmuir

  Needs, Benefits, Mankind

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• There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

  Leon Trotsky

  Car, Limits, Impossible

  "The Russian Revolution". Book by Leon Trotsky, 1930.

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• But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

  David Blunkett

  Responsibility, Perception, Take Me

  "Full text: Blunkett's resignation statement", www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2004.

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• It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Government, Punishment

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.11

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• We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Thinking, Judging, Research

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• Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Brain, Intuition

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

  James Cash Penney

  Golden, Limits, Economy

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• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

  Fay Weldon

  Practice, Mind, Affirmation

  "It's Do-able!: Power to Unleash Your Dream". Book by Canaan Mashonganyika, 2013.

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• I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.

  Geoff Davis

  Iraq, Helpful, Situation

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• The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Perception, Mind

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.64, Pearson Education

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• Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

  Matthew Simpson

  Faith, Phrases, Gains

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• But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.

  John W. Thompson

  Clouds, Connections, Ends

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?

  Jamie Zawinski

  Doe, Use, Corny

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• Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about

  Whitfield Diffie

  Clever, Real, Writing

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• Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

  Suzanne La Follette

  Peace, Ubuntu, Rights

  Concerning Women "The Beginnings of Emancipation" (1926)

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• Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

  Luc Montagnier

  Research, Should, Basic Research

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• The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Silly, Math, Doubt

  Eric Temple Bell (1937). “Men of Mathematics”

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