Application Quotes - Page 19

• Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

  Robert L. Peters

  Opposites, Design, Antidote

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• In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.

  Satya Nadella

  Clouds, Light, Needs

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• True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service.

  David O. McKay

  Heart, Kind Deeds, Love And Friendship

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• Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

  Peter Drucker

  Tools, Logic, Materials

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.205, Routledge

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• The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body of men and women who understand the fundamental laws of nature and are skilled in the techniques of scientific research. We shall have rapid or slow advance on any scientific frontier depending on the number of highly qualified and trained scientists exploring it.

  Vannevar Bush

  Responsibility, Men, Law

  "Science - The Endless Frontier" by Vannevar Bush, United States, Office of Scientific Research and Development, July 1945.

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• My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.

  Adelaide Crapsey

  Lying, Important, Venture

  Adelaide Crapsey (1918). “A Study in English Metrics”

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• Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

  William Shenstone

  Flattery, Imagine, Enough

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.142

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• Go to the bookstore and look at how many bookshelves are filled with books trying to explain how to work the devices. We don't see shelves of books on how to use television sets, telephones, refrigerators or washing machines. Why should we for computer-based applications?

  Donald A. Norman

  Book, Trying, Use

  "The Invisible Computer". Book by Donald A. Norman, Ch. 10, 1998.

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• Let's face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone. That's why they've got 75,000 applications - they're all trying to make the Internet look decent on the iPhone.

  Steve Ballmer

  Iphone, Trying, Looks

  "Ballmer: "The Internet Was Designed For The PC. The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone" by Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 21, 2009.

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• Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we have made it our duty to exercise them that if we come to engage in an activity of a different kind, it catches us off guard and without the slightest awareness that it might involve the application of those same virtues.

  Marcel Proust

  Exercise, Mind, Quality

  Marcel Proust (2010). “In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 2: Within a Budding Grove”, p.2, Random House

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• "Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Arrows, Doe, True And False

  "Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (§ 454), 1953.

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• As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.

  Robert Jarvik

  Heart, Technology, Doctors

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• Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.

  Robert Owen

  Wall, Garden, Class

  "The Book of the New Moral World, Vol. 3". Book by Robert Owen, 1836-1844.

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• I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon MAGICK and the right comprehension and right application thereof.

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Soul, Way

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language, and led to numerous new methodologies and applications -- systems engineering, systems analysis, systems dynamics, and so on.

  Fritjof Capra

  Strong, Thinking, Engineering

  Fritjof Capra (1996). “The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems”, Doubleday

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• This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings ( épures ), plans ( schémas ), etc. One only right solution imposes itself:;: namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Memories, Military, Drawing

  Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

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• If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider application does not furnish any proof that it ought not to be so applied.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Religious, Principles, Doe

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• Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  People, Focus, Needs

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• Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities.

  Maynard Webb

  Technology, Opportunity, Training

  Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler (2013). “Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship”, p.33, John Wiley & Sons

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• God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Cutting, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4099, Delphi Classics

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• America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.

  Arthur Goldberg

  War, Fighting, Winning

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• What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Play, Feelings

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4895, Delphi Classics

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• Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.

  Vinton Cerf

  Thinking, Way, Evolution

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• The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

  L. E. J. Brouwer

  Art, Evil, World

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• Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Mediocrity, Superiority

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