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So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind.
jonathan swift— 1733 'On Poetry', l.337-42.
The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty.
ian anderson— GTK Ep 899. Broadcast 12th August 1974, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, interviewed by Gary Hyde
Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.
fred brooks— Page 202 (No Silver Bullet (1986))
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
jane welsh carlyle— Journal entry (25 November 1855)
It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.
albert finney— Interview with Paul Fischer at Dark Horizons (2 December 2003)
Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.
julian jaynes— Book I, Chapter 1, p. 23
When you have a big problem to solve, break it down to smaller ones first.
siddharth katragadda— Dark Rooms (2002) by Siddharth Katragadda page 5
In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he’s standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he’ll be smaller than the others,
josé saramago— The Cave p. 60 (Vintage 2003)
Pyramiding instructions appear on dollar bills. Add smaller and smaller amounts on the way up. Keep your eye open at the top.
ed seykota— Source: Covel, Trend Following, page 55
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
sydney smith— Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding.
Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.
bjarne stroustrup— Stroustrup, Bjarne. The Design and Evolution of C++. pp. 207. . A later clarification adds, "And no, that smaller and cleaner language is not Java or C#."Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?. Retrieved on 2007-11-15.
He disrupted things and that’s fine, but now things have been shaken up so much that it’s been shaken up into little bits and the little bits have been shaken up into even smaller bits. We are saying let’s put it all back together.
charles thomson— Richard Moss, "Stuckist's Punk Victorian gatecrashes Walker's Biennial" 24hourmuseum.org.uk, 2004-09-17. Accessed 2007-02-01.
— On Marcel Duchamp.
A far smaller proportion of the population is in jail in Japan than in any Western country - around a twentieth of that in the United States. Evidently the Japanese have yet to embrace Western values.
john n. gray— Non-Progress: 'Western Values' (p.180)
In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.
robert heilbroner— Chapter VI, Karl Marx, p. 152
Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.
david hilbert— Hilbert-Courant (1984) by Constance Reid, p. 174
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.
robert orben— Henry J. Waters III (April 29, 2008) "The Tribune's View: The oil crisis - Shall we continue to fiddle?", Columbia Daily Tribune.
The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.
muhammad reza pahlavi— As quoted in Asadollah Alam (1991), The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77, page 262
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
bertrand russell— "The Expanding Mental Universe", Saturday Evening Post (July 1959).
Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been won in spite of the irrational beliefs of the Greek people; all in all, it was a triumph of reason in the face of unreason. Some knowledge of Greek superstitions is needed not only for a proper appreciation of that triumph but also for the justification of occasional failures, such as the many Platonic aberrations.
george sarton— Preface (A History of Science Vol.1 Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece (1952))
The smaller the company, the larger the conversation.
john lancaster spalding— p. 182 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
Because they [the ancient Greeks] feared infinite processes they missed the limit process. In approximating a circle by a polygon they were content to make the difference smaller than any given quantity, but something positive was always left over. Thus the process remained clear to the intuition; the limit process, on the other hand, would have involved the infinitely small.
— Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University Press, 1972
TM, Erhard Seminars Training (est), and the Rajneesh Foundation are currently the most visible NRMs offering a release service to clients in Western Europe, but a large number of smaller groups are also in operation.
— James A. Beckford (1987). New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change. SAGE Publications Ltd. p. 44. ISBN 0803985916.
Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?
— Chapter 11, p. 90 (Working Class Zero (2003))
The shocks were so violent and varied, and succeeded one another so closely, that I had to balance myself carefully in walking as if on the deck of a ship among waves, and it seemed impossible that the high cliffs of the Valley could escape being shattered. In particular, I feared that the sheer-fronted Sentinel Rock, towering above my cabin, would be shaken down, and I took shelter back of a large yellow pine, hoping that it might protect me from at least the smaller outbounding boulders.
— John Muir in: "John Muir and the March 26, 1872, Owens Valley Earthquake".
One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.
thomas sowell— Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
TM, Erhard Seminars Training (est), and the Rajneesh Foundation are currently the most visible NRMs offering a release service to clients in Western Europe, but a large number of smaller groups are also in operation.
— James A. Beckford (1987). New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change. SAGE Publications Ltd. p. 44. ISBN 0803985916.
Sideways thinking is that way of approaching a problem from a new direction not evolving a solution from something that already exists and not looking down upon it and breaking it up into smaller parts but actually backing off, looking at in different than normal ways and thinking from the side.
— Evaluation Engineering (1988) Vol 27, Nr 1-6. p. 59
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbours. The citizen of the universe would the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
— Voltaire, ["Fatherland" in "Miracles and Idolatry" (Selections from the Dictionnaire Philosophique (1764),(pg. 56), Penguin Books, 2005.]
Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.
— Bjarne Stroustrup (1994) The Design and Evolution of C++. Addison-Wesley, p. 207
India is a huge country but it always listens to us, the smaller countries... I trust democracy far more than any other form of governance.
— Mohamed Nasheed, fourth president of the Maldives, quoted on HaveeruOnline, "Maldives ensures no security threat to India", October 29, 2011.
