Application Quotes
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In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles, he must furnish particular instances of their application.
William Strunk, Jr. -
Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
Petrarch
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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
Thomas A. Edison -
My first operating system project was to build a real-time system called RSX-11M that ran on Digital's PDP-11 16-bit series of minicomputers. ... a multitasking operating system that would run in 32 KB of memory with a hierarchical file system, application swapping, real-time scheduling, and a set of development utilities. The operating system and utilities were to run on the entire line of PDP-11 platforms, from the very small systems up through the PDP-11/70 which had memory-mapping hardware and supported up to 4 MB of memory.
Dave Cutler -
Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.
Sandra Day O'Connor -
The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.
William Fogg Osgood -
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.
William James
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Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from Day 1 to be an offline device and to sit on a shelf. An LTFS-formatted LTO-6 tape can store 2.5 TB of uncompressed data and almost 6 TB with compression. That means many data centers could fit their entire data set into a small FedEx box. With LTFS the sending and receiving data centers no longer need to be running the same application to access the data on the tape.
George Arthur Crump -
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
William Weld -
Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
John Calvin -
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
William James -
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
Bill Gates -
The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
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The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science.
Derek Harold Richard Barton -
Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.
William Godwin -
The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.
Ernest Lawrence -
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
William Golding
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Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
William Hazlitt -
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.
Charles Dickens -
The supreme application of human attention is to be a vessel to carry awe.
Etsko Schuitema