Application Quotes - Page 26

• Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Spiritual, Art, Mean

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.

  Adam Rex

  Acceptance, Snacks, Three

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• By leveraging the Unicode Standard, Progress Software is enabling its ASPs (Application Service Providers) and ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to quickly and efficiently deliver their business applications to the Internet and to users around the world.

  Joseph Alsop

  Independent, Progress, Around The World

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• Music gets recorded usually in one format, and when you have to take it out and perform it there are other applications and things like that that are better for the live performance.

  Todd Rundgren

  Format, Performances, Live Performance

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• But it is certainly not possible to insist on one hand that the formalism is complete and to insist on the other hand that its application to 'the actual' actually demands a step which cannot be derived from it.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Hands, Demand

  Karl Raimund Popper (1992). “Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics”, p.123, Psychology Press

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• Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.

  Vinton Cerf

  Thinking, Way, Evolution

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• The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

  L. E. J. Brouwer

  Art, Evil, World

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• Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Mediocrity, Superiority

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• In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Letting Go, Pain, Disappointment

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• [Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.

  Rachel Carson

  Mean, Hard Work, Writing

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• Never before was it as incumbent upon every members to restate loyalty and exemplify fraternal obligation by consistent life and unimpeachable character. But these must be reinforced by a growing consciousness of the responsibilities that Alpha Phi Alpha faces in the world today, where, if ever the problems which beset us are to be solved and a way of deliverance discovered, it must be by the application of those principles upon which we are founded.

  Jewel

  Loyalty, Character, Responsibility

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• Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Ideas, Profound, Noble

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• Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Country

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Common Sense, Problem, Conservation

  Gifford Pinchot (2017). “Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings”, p.43, Penn State Press

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• Through the proper application of kundalini, a woman can quickly become aware of the tremendous power that resides inside herself and reach enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment

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• I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Reading, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.294, Rowman & Littlefield

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• An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

  Booker T. Washington

  Clarity, Communicate, Abstraction

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1984). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1914-15”, p.350, University of Illinois Press

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• For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.

  William Lipscomb

  Creativity, Sleep, Night

  "William N. Lipscomb Jr., Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist, Dies at 91" by Glenn Rifkin, www.nytimes.com. April 15, 2011.

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• In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles, he must furnish particular instances of their application.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Art, Principles, Argument

  William Strunk, Jr. (1972). “The Elements of Style”

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• Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving brother.

  George Washington

  Brother, Principles, Masonic

  George Washington, William Wright Abbot, Philander D. Chase, Dorothy Twohig, Mark A. Mastromarino (1996). “The Papers of George Washington: July-November 1790”

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• The high number from the Middle East is only coincidence, he said. It is no particular choice on our part, ... We accept visa trainees from those countries. We'd accept them from other countries, too, but we don't get their applications.

  Martin Gardner

  Country, Numbers, Choices

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• I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether's application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.

  David Hilbert

  Sex, Rejection, Discrimination

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• Justice - there is an air of nobility about the word. It calls to mind other words like equity, fairness, and truth. It speaks of honor and exactness. It speaks of righteousness. But, sadly, in today's world its application is often anything but noble, honorable, or righteous.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Truth, Air, Justice

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• It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases of what is adequate only for piecemeal aggregates. The question is whether an approach in piecemeal terms, through blind connections, is or is not adequate to interpret actual thought processes and the role of the past experience as well. Past experience has to be considered thoroughly, but it is ambiguous in itself; so long as it is taken in piecemeal, blind terms it is not the magic key to solve all problems.

  Max Wertheimer

  Taken, Past, Keys

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• Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession.

  Humphry Davy

  Mean, Men, Intellectual

  Sir Humphry Davy (1812). “Elements of Chemical Philosophy”, p.54

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