#construction

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#back #brief #construction #design #each

From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power. ↗

— Donna Haraway

#objectivity #partial-perspective #rhetoric #science-studies #situated-knowledge

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction. ↗

— Wayne White

#failures #magnitude #nobody #our #part

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. ↗

— Richard Courant

#aesthetic #analysis #basic #basic elements #construction

There's almost 70 billion in square feet under construction in high rises in commercial, residential and light manufacturing. And we estimate about 30 billion square feet, and that's with a 'B,' is commercial, that we would just consider office space. To put that in perspective, that's a 5x5-foot cubicle for every man, woman and child in China. ↗

— James Chanos

#almost #billion #child #china #commercial

I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it. ↗

— Derek Fisher

#another #because #betterment #commended #construction

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#bowed #country #enemy #highest #nation

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#construction #courses #demonstrated #design #development

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#construction #each #functionality #goal #hierarchies

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#construction #financing #innovative #most #nation