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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.
According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple.
stanislaw ulam— Chapter 13, Government Science, p. 258
The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a sense of mental independence. You're not swept up in the trivialities of a nation. You can concentrate on the serious matters.
julian assange— "The secret life of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange". The Sydney Morning Herald. May 22, 2010. Retrieved on 2010-06-17.
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.
j. g. ballard— "Introduction" to the French edition (1974) of Crash (1973); reprinted in Re/Search no. 8/9 (1984)
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
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
Marshall McLuhan— "Innovation is obsolete", Evergreen review, Volume 15, Issues 86-94, Grove Press, 1971, p. 64
The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius. The study confirms that the brain is a modular system comprising multiple intelligences, mostly nonverbal.
steven pinker— "On Einstein's brain," The New York Times (June 24, 1999)
"Quantum interference the crosstalk among similar quantum states knits the different versions of your brain together." "You're saying that my consciousness extends across multiple cosmi," I said. "That's a pretty wild statement." "I'm saying all things do," Orolo said. "That comes with the polycosmic interpretation. The only thing exceptional about the brain is that it has found a way to use this."
neal stephenson— Part 8, "Orithena"
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
The multiple human needs and desires that demand privacy among two or more people in the midst of social life must inevitably lead to cryptology wherever men thrive and wherever they write.
— David Kahn, The Codebreakers
A key ingredient to an enterprise architecture is the ability to link multiple and disparate systems into a coherent whole. Novell has been gradually putting together the technology that will enable it to offer enterprise LANs that are capable of supporting distributed applications running across a variety of computer Internetworking and multi- routing are essential building blocks.
— Karyl Scott (1992). "Enterprise computing: Internetwork routing enhancements planned for NetWare". In: InfoWorld?. Vol 14, nr.28, p. 96
...the surface of the earth was subject to alterations by natural events, such as earthquakes, volcanoes , and the erosive action of wind and water, operating over very long periods of time. Changes in the land created new environments and fostered adaptations in life forms that could lead to the formation of new species. Without the demonstration of the accumulation of multiple crustal events over time in Chile , the biologic implications of the specific species of birds and tortoises found in the Galapagos Islands and the formulation of the concept of natural selection might have remained dormant.
— James Hutton and Charles Lyell, quoted in: Richard V. Lee Darwin’s Earthquake , Rev Med chile 2010, p.897
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 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.
The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience. Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius. The study confirms that the brain is a modular system comprising multiple intelligences, mostly nonverbal.
— Steven Pinker "On Einstein's brain," The New York Times (June 24, 1999)
We do not copy Google's search results. We use multiple signals and approaches in ranking search results. Opt-in programs like the toolbar help us with clickstream data, one of many input signals we and other search engines use to help rank sites.
— Harry Shum, vice president of Bing, quoted on BBC News, "Google accuses Bing of 'copying' its search results", February 2, 2011.
Vital signs should be observed regularly, and a Doppler [for listening to the fetal heartbeat] inaudible to the patient should be used at intervals to determine the presence or absence of fetal heart tones. This [informed consent] is a controversial area, but most professionals in the field feel that it is not advisable for patients to view the products of conception, to be told the sex of the fetus, or to be informed of a multiple pregnancy.
— Warren Hern, excerpted from his medical textbook Abortion Practice, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1984.
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)
