#application

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#application #consists #done #greatness #his

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them? ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#basic #because #changed #does #just

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

#applications #because #i #need #regardless

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

The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement. ↗

— Victor Francis Hess

#capable #carried #enables #energy #extension

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

It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#develop #lots #net #people #strategic

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#build #closer #consumers #cross-platform #desktop

What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver? ↗

— Brian Williams

#applications #cameras #colorado #denver #does

Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#coincidence #essential #exaggeration #field #found