Application Quotes - Page 9

• The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

  William Godwin

  Virtue, Capacity, Humans

  William Godwin (1793). “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness”, p.309

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• If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Blow, Intelligent, Manage

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

  Petrarch

  Soul, Relax, Form

  Letter to Giovanni Boccaccio, April 28, 1373.

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• For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Successful, Sea, Doe

  "The Aims of Education". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

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• It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagems and ruses may be used in achieving either rational or moral virtues, or in achieving skill in a practical art, or in working evil and wickedness.

  Maimonides

  Art, Skills, Evil

  Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.353, Behrman House, Inc

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• Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Simple, Doe

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.146, Princeton University Press

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• I might get scared of a really big dog, but I don't scare easy. As a youngster I used to watch all the scary stuff by myself, so nothing really gets to me now. There's actually a new series on TV called Hellevator and I filled out an application to be on the show because I love that type of stuff.

  Andre Dirrell

  Dog, Filled Out, Scary

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• When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, the application of more effort has no effect on the schedule. The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

  Fred Brooks

  Children, Effort, Tasks

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• Around the late 1990s, I'd become convinced that one of the killer applications of robotics came from connecting robots to the Internet. The idea of solving generalized artificial intelligence was still far away, but heck, I could rent brains by hiring operators. iRobot was the name of the company and one of our most ambitious projects, iRobot LE.

  Colin Angle

  Names, Ideas, Brain

  "iRobot Cracked Open A Huge Market By Ignoring Everything People Thought About Robots". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2014.

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• Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Men, Machines

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• If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

  George Eliot

  Character, Needs, Theory

  George Eliot (2015). “Eliot's Essays: Top Essays”, p.98, 谷月社

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• During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian.

  Greg Abbott

  Law, Justice, Goal

  "Greg Abbott's War". Interview with Jake Silverstein, www.texasmonthly.com. September 2012.

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• My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category. Thus, I follow the literature on programming languages and the debates about programming languages primarily looking for ideas for solutions to problems my colleagues and I have encountered in real applications. Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Real, Fall, Inspiration

  Bjarne Stroustrup (1994). “The Design and Evolution of C++”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Artist, Swings

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 92), 1966.

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• As far as Paris goes, we don't know for sure yet how these guys communicate among themselves and how they communicated back to the ISIS leadership in Iraq and Syria, but I'm fairly confident we're going to learn they used these encrypted communication applications that have commercial encryption and are extremely difficult for companies to break - and which the companies have made the decision not to produce a key for.

  Michael Morell

  Communication, Keys, Isis

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Lying, Teaching

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• The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result.

  Viet D. Dinh

  Numbers, Office, Quality

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• A sentence from Psalm 101 has been both challenging and convicting for me: 'I will walk in my house with blameless heart' (Psalm 101-2, NIV). When God speaks to me about being more loving, this verse reminds me to make application in my family first-and then to others. It forces me to ask, 'Am I more spiritual, more loving, or more fun somewhere else? Who gets my best-my family or others?'

  Jean Fleming

  Spiritual, Fun, Heart

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• I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.

  Dale J. Stephens

  Creativity, College, Two

  "College is a waste of time" by Dale Stephens, www.cnn.com. June 3, 2011.

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• It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I mean who hasn't lost work due to Windows or a Microsoft application crashing?

  Chris DiBona

  Mean, Microsoft, World

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• FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

  Bill Dedman

  Loss, Decision, Doe

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• To meet someone who really hurts you is to meet a rare and precious treasure. Hold that person in high esteem, and make full use of the opportunity to eradicate your defects and make progress on the path. If you cannot yet feel love and compassion for those who treat you badly, it is a sign that your mind has not been fully transformed and that you need to keep working on it with increased application.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Hurt, Opportunity, Compassion

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• Ever since I was a child I've had a passion for colors and a sixth sense and known how to use it. I started in fashion, but I got side-tracked by psychology and its color connection. I went back to school and got both my degrees in psychology, but I kept studying design. Color has an application in all of those fields.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Fashion, Children, Passion

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.

  Janis Joplin

  Believe, People, Tests

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• Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

  Plato

  Soul, Principles, Way

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