Application Quotes - Page 24

• To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Errors, Sin, Diligence

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• There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.

  Louis Pasteur

  Applied Science, Pure

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• Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications.

  George Tenet

  War, College, Information

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• The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one's friends but of one's enemies.

  Clement Attlee

  Real, Enemy, Tests

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• With these 11 million people here illegally, let's have them registered, know who they are, those that are her paying taxes and not taking government benefits should begin a process towards application for citizenship.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, People, Paying Taxes

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• We see constituents who are manifestly incapable of undertaking any normal work... Those whose applications for benefits are subsequently rejected go through a period of incredible stress, and some, sadly, take their lives during that time. Applicants who appeal usually win.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Stress, Winning, Benefits

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• The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

  John Dewey

  Real, Thinking, Problem

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• I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?

  Claude Shannon

  Interesting, Problem, Elegance

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• The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.

  John Calvin

  Real, Skills

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• But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

  Kathleen Parker

  Principles, Priests, Expenses

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• I always knew that there were huge opportunities for me, and that I had a lot of potential to do a lot of different things, but I also knew it was about my execution and my application of skills.

  T.I.

  Opportunity, Skills, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• New applications will have to deal with big data. We have to analyze it on the fly, so we have to have a system that is transactional and analytical at the same time. We cannot have a multi-stage system. This is too slow for modern applications.

  Hasso Plattner

  Data, Modern, Bigs

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• War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Hands, Limits

  Carl von Clausewitz (1943). “On war: Translated from the German by O.J. Matthijs Jolles”

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• We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.

  Mark Cuban

  Simple, Forget, Internet

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• The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of a consistent application of these doctrines.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, War, Age

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• We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Running, New York, Cities

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• WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web as an adjunct to other things they can do, and WorldGate allows that through the layout engine in Mozilla, called Gecko.

  Mitchell Baker

  Want, Mozilla, Boxes

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• The scope of herbal medicine ranges from mild-acting plant medicines such as chamomile and peppermint, to very potent ones such as foxglove (from which the drug digitalis is derived). In between these two poles lies a wide spectrum of plant medicine with significant medical applications. One need only go to the United States Pharacopoeia to see the central role that plant medicine has played in American medicine.

  Donald Brown

  Lying, Plant Medicine, Two

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• Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities.

  Maynard Webb

  Technology, Opportunity, Training

  Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler (2013). “Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship”, p.33, John Wiley & Sons

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• Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Roots, Tree, Soul

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• Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Religious, Spring

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.

  Samuel Johnson

  Science, Law, Ideas

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.74

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• Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.

  Aharon Katzir

  Exercise, Science, Goal

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• My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.

  Bill Bryson

  Science, Work Out, Royal

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• Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into believing there's any cure for a hangover. I've tried them all: iced tomatoes, hot clam juice, brandy peaches. Like the common cold it defies solution. Time alone can stay it. The hair of the dog? That way lies folly. It's as logical as trying to put out a fire with applications of kerosene.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Dog, Lying, Believe

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.95, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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