Application Quotes - Page 2

• Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

  Suzanne La Follette

  Peace, Ubuntu, Rights

  Concerning Women "The Beginnings of Emancipation" (1926)

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• We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

  William Glasser

  Educational, School, Thinking

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• Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

  Luc Montagnier

  Research, Should, Basic Research

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• Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge

  Ivan Misner

  Common, Uncommon, Common Knowledge

  FaceBook post by Ivan Misner from Nov 12, 2016

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• Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications.

  John W. Thompson

  Way, Wells, Users

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Law, Principles, Icy

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• Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.

  Lewis Thompson Preston

  Justice, Would Be, Records

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• Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

  Drew Endy

  Engineering, Design, Understanding

  "From the cells up" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2005.

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• As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.

  Frank Vincent

  Thinking, Cities, Progress

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• If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

  Linus Torvalds

  Mean, Microsoft, Linux

  "Why Intel and Netscape bought into Linux" by David Needle, edition.cnn.com. October 1, 1998.

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• We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

  Donald Cram

  Mind

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• The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

  Asher Brown Durand

  Mean, Artist, Understanding

  Linda S. Ferber, Asher Brown Durand (2007). “Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape”, D Giles Ltd

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• Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Perseverance, Mean, Men

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• Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Needs, Rehabilitation, Want

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• First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.

  John W. Thompson

  Focus, Riding, Firsts

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Secret, Benefits

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.167

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• The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Revolution, Rebellious

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

  Adolf Hitler

  Clever, Lying, Rise To Power

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• Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

  Michael K. Powell

  Phones, Essence, Separation

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• I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

  James L. Barksdale

  Thinking, Groups, Microsoft

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• The life of doctrine is in application.

  Joseph Hall

  Doctrine

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Some specialities in the life of Bishop Hall. Letter from the Tower. Bishop Hall's Hard measure. Contemplations on the Old Testament”, p.381

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• And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

  Henry Taube

  Science, Understanding, Benefits

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• Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Reality, Connections, Enthusiasm

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

  Felix Klein

  Newton, Theory, Mathematician

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• I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Operating Systems, Particular

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