#application

For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#allowing #application #applications #because #big

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#expenditure #found #gratification #lavish #mere

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#application #apply #brakes #car #democratic

There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people. ↗

— Paul Harris

#application #genius #more #nothing #our

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

#certainty #deal #icy #into #law

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

#arises #benefit #chief #immediate #indirect

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#applications #carry #e-commerce #get #information

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! ↗

— Johnny Ball

#difficult #elegance #emphasise #how #mathematics

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#data #environment #live #possible #separate

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

— William Glasser

#application #educational #facts #focus #knowledge