#com

Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#coming #containers #into #our #percent

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. ↗

— William James

#force #idea #individual #must #revelation

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#cease #computer #computer program #consciousness #could

Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confusion. Only his long experience as a system administrator, struggling with Byzantine software installations, had prevented hum from plummeting into despair and simply giving up. Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#computers #persistence #sysadmins #experience

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#atmosphere #big #black #classes #dance

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#common #doing #done #faculties #genius

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#achieved #climb #everybody #however #lasting

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared. ↗

— Lena Headey

#am #being #being alone #brain #comes

The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in. ↗

— Phil Harris

#applause #based #come #could #decided

We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#company #phone