Application Quotes
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The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.
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The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all the latest tactical experience and developments, and must insist on their practical application. He must see to it that his subordinates are trained in accordance with the latest requirements. The best form of welfare for the troops is first-class training, for this saves unnecessary casualties.
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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.
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The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.
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Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.
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Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
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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.
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Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.
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The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.
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My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
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Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
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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.
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The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.
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Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
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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.
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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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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.
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There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
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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.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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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.
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Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
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No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
