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I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and ta-da! the World Wide Web.
tim berners-lee— Answers for Young People
The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
tim berners-lee— Tim Berners-Lee Speech before Knight Foundation, (14 September 2008)
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq with the war on terror.
george w. bush— September 7, 2006 interview with Katie Couric [YouTube]
Without contemplating last and late the true nature of poetry. The drive to connect. The dream of a common language.
— 1978 The Dream of a Common Language,'Origins and History of Consciousness'.
...Instead of taking the 'I'm cool, I hope you adore me' path (with my music), I chose the path of how to connect. I think that's the reason a lot of people feel a deeper connection with our band than other bands, and I also feel that's why people polarize on us. If you don't get it, it seems preposterous; if you do get it, it's really heavy -- it has a weight to it.
billy corgan— "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Success." LIVE! Magazine. August 1996.
I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.
hilary duff— Binelli, Mark. "Teenager of the Year". Rolling Stone. August 27 2003. Retrieved October 25 2006.
— On Metamorphosis (2003).
Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level—and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change.
john kotter— Step 6, p. 130
When I filmed the pilot, I thought it was a quality show with a good cast, but I had no expectations. I just hoped people would connect with it because there's a lot of heart.
kristin kreuk— Teen People's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" in 2002
If the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that’s just the way it is. That’s what makes my wheels turn.
— Curvemag (Sourced)
Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
paul muldoon— Interviewed in Thumbscrew, Spring 1996. [1]
If you haven’t already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.
chuck palahniuk— Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)
Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a sweet inland murmur. —Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, Which on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
william wordsworth— Stanza 1.
In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vision its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect connect without bitterness until all men are brothers.
e. m. forster— Ch. 33 (Howards End (1910))
Any high school boy or girl knows how to calculate the force with which a stone he or she throws will hit someone in the face, but nothing in those equations they use will tell them whether or not to throw it…To solve the problem of values we must know what is valuable. Consciousness is the most valuable commodity…To bring values into science, we need to connect science with what is valuable consciousness.
ravi gomatam— An interview with Ravi Gomatam by Thomas Beardy for Clarion Call magazine (Clarion University's newspaper)"Is There Consciousness Within Science?", 1990.
I now propose briefly to... set forth, in a form intelligible to those who possess no special acquaintance with anatomical science, the chief facts upon which all conclusions respecting the nature and the extent of the bonds which connect man with the brute world must be based: I shall then indicate the one immediate conclusion which, in my judgment, is justified by those facts, and I shall finally discuss the bearing of that conclusion upon the hypotheses which have been entertained respecting the Origin of Man.
thomas henry huxley— Ch.2, p.74
When you're ready to make the change and you don't feel that you have the strength, know that you are connected with the same strength that moves the world; you just have to stop turning your back on it and connect with it.
steve maraboli— p. 83 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.
steve maraboli— p. 123 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
I will look through 200 photographs of Kate Moss and there will be just one that I connect with for some reason, maybe because of the composition or something in the eye... Something touches me and I know I have to paint it, in the way a child knows it wants something.
stella vine— Eyre, Hermione. "Stars in her eyes", The Independent on Sunday (2007-07-15), retrieved from findarticles.comOn Kate Moss.
A monologue can never be the whole story of a particular drama . It is always just one character's point of view at an isolated moment in the action...Perhaps the only and best bit of direction to leave you with when doing a monologue is to feel the need to speak, know what you are speaking about and to whom, and the words will connect with what you have to say.
— Micheal Erley, Philippa Keil The Contemporary Monologue: Women:, Routledge, 13 May 2013, p. Notes to the Actor
There is not one of you whose actions do not operate on the actions of others operate, we mean, in the way of example. He would be insignificant who could only destroy his own soul; but you are all, alas! of importance enough to help also to destroy the souls of others. ...Ye cannot live for yourselves; a thousand fibres connect you with your fellow-men, and along those fibres, as along sympathetic threads, run your actions as causes, and return to you as effects.
— "Partaking in Other Men's Sins", an address at St. Margaret's Church, Lothbury, England (12 June 1855), printed in Golden Lectures (1855); eventually part of this statement become paraphrased in several slight variations, and has usually been misattributed to Herman Melville, i.e.: "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and along these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects".
Our early family relationships are extremely powerful. According to attachment theory (a fancy term for how we connect with other people), these relationships set the tone for the rest of our lives.
— p. 14 (Break Through: When to Give In, How to Push Back…The Moment That Changes Everything with Pat Springle (Worthy))
In criminal cases you always begin by proving the corpus delicti, and then connect the prisoner with it.
— Pollock, C.B., Queen v. Bernard (1858), 8 St. Tr. (N. S.) 922.
Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
Gertrude Stein— Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography (1937), chapter 4.
The law has ever been watchful and jealous of wills made under religious influences, and especially so when those influences connect themselves with any individual who is the object of the testator's bounty.
— Sir J. P. Wilde, Smith v. Tebbitt (1867), L. R. 1 Pr. & D. 437.
What's garbage today is gold years later... the trick is to catalog it, retrieve it, and connect the dots.
Heidi Beirich— Director of Intelligence Project, Southern Poverty Law Center, U.S. News & World Report, September 6, 1999.
The book, as far as I am aware, is the first attempt to connect the natural sciences into a history of creation.
— p.388 (Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844))
