Vannevar Bush Quotes
There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
Vannevar Bush
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Queen Latifah
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Ed Gillespie
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Owain Yeoman
If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
Daniel De Leon
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Sam Brownback
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Sam Taylor-Wood
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Hanya Yanagihara
I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.
Wendy Kopp
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
Johnny Carson
I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.
Sebastian Junger
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Pamela Sargent
It makes it that much easier for me, especially when he gets that attention on the post and people double him, and I get the entry pass. I get people running out at me, I can drive to the basket or hit that shot. And running the pick-and-roll, when guys try to take the ball out of my hands, all I do is make that one little pass at the free throw line. And when (Webber) is knocking it down, it?s tough for a team to stop us.
Allen Iverson
There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
Vannevar Bush
