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Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
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Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.
john d. carmack— Quoted in John Carmack's .plan file (2000-05-15)
I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.
steven chu— Interview by Spencer Michels, The NewsHour, PBS, 2 May 2007 [1]
Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.
george dantzig— Dantzig (1983) "Reminiscences about the origins of linear programming". In: Mathematical programming : the state of the art. New York, 1983, p.78-86.
If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.
william mcdonough— "William McDonough: Godfather of Green", WNYC Studio 360 (18 March 2008)
A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.
shigeru miyamoto— Interview with Shigeru Miyamoto Eurogamer.net, published on 31 March 2010
C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is.
erik naggum— Re: Allegro CL foreign function interface (Usenet article)
Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.
simon blackburn— Chapter Five, God, p. 170
Space , time , mass, and energy originate from Chaos , have their being in Chaos, and through th agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence.
peter j. carroll— p. 52 (Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987))
Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
gilles deleuze— p. 7 (Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962))
If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?
david harvey— Chapter 10, Finance Capital And Its Contradictions, p. 316
The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbour and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest functionaire possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose discretion it depends whether and how I am to be allowed to live or to work.
friedrich hayek— p. 104 (The Road to Serfdom (1944))
O Spirit of litigation, know, When we keep silent in this season, The stem of multiple lilies grew Too large to be contained by reason
stéphane mallarmé— "Prose" (1885)
If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.
— William McDonough (2008) "William McDonough: Godfather of Green" WNYC Studio 360, 18 March 2008)
So much of our human resourcefulness comes from having multiple ways to describe the same situations so that each one of those different perspectives may help us to get around the deficiencies of the other ones.
— Marvin Minsky (2006) The Emotion Machine
[in Kenya]...any woman who is single and has multiple male sex partners is considered to be a prostitute, whether or not money changes hands.
— New Internationalist, Issue 252 - February 1994.
Facebook has now firmly established itself as a hub on the internet, making it a destination for surfers to do multiple tasks such as communications, gaming, shopping, photo-sharing and information gathering.
— Chris Green - an analyst at the Davies Murphy Group consultancy, quoted on BBC News, "Facebook tops Google searches for UK in 2013", December 17, 2013.
Although any point along the Ganga can serve as a pilgrimage site, a number of especially powerful thirthas (sacred crossings) along her banks allow pilgrims to cover multiple spiritual bases with a single visit. Banaras is the largest and most visited of these thirthas, presenting itself as Kashi (“the luminous”), an otherworldly abode that rests Shiva’s trident and grants instant liberation to all who die within its boundaries.
— Skanda Purana (IV.I.28:80), p.40 (Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India (3 February 2008)])
[A speaker who uses a multiple negative] spreads as it were a thin layer of negative colouring over the whole sentence instead of confining it to a single place.
— Otto Jespersen, quoted in Fowler's Modern English Usage, p 384
Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.
— George Dantzig (1983) "Reminiscences about the origins of linear programming". In: Mathematical programming : the state of the art. New York, 1983, p.78-86.
A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.
— Shigeru Miyamoto, Interviewed by Eurogamer.net, 31 March 2010
And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.
— Darl McBride (August 15, 2002, [1])
CRAR [Critically Reflexive Action Research] does not aim to create one representation of reality but, rather, the unravelling (and documentation) of multiple realities and rhetorics that are in mutual and simultaneous interaction.
— Susan Weil (1998) "Rhetorics and realities in public service organisations: systemic practice and organisational learning as Critically Reflexive Action Research (CRAR)". In: Systemic Practice and Action Research,. Vol 7, nr.5, p.58
If clinical multiple personality is buried and forgotten, then the Manchurian Candidate Programs will be safe from public scrutiny.
— Colin A. Ross, in The C.I.A. Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists, (1 January 2006), p.37
Denial of the reality of multiple personality by these doctors in the mind control network, who are also on the FMSF [False Memory Syndrome Foundation] Scientific and Professional Advisory Board, could be disinformation. The disinformation could be amplified by attacks on specialists in multiple personality as CIA conspiracy lunatics.
— Colin A. Ross, in Government-Funded Mind Control/Medical Experimentation (Quotes to Ponder)
Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition . There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.
— Matt Taibbi, in Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
As we go through life, we’re piling on deeper and deeper layers of consciousness, which leads to a greater capacity to take multiple perspectives. It’s a little like the many layers of dessert piled on Miss Piggy’s plate at an all-you-can-eat buffet. Only with this, it’s less carbs and more nutrition.
Kermit the Frog— "The creative act of listening to a talking frog," TEDx Talk (2014)
[Boxed] multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby .
larry wall— In reference to the boxed screensaver that comes with
xscreensaver.
[Boxed] multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby .
— Larry Wall : In reference to the boxed screensaver that comes with
xscreensaver.
