#distributed

I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day. ↗

— Frank Lautenberg

#any #buy #cut #day #distributed

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated. ↗

— Gary Miller

#consumers #demonstrated #distributed #fragile #gasoline

Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#any #better #distributed #down #every

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#being #different #distributed #implemented #machines

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed. ↗

— John Hull

#exchange #fact #led #other #our

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#complex #daily #daily work #distributed #example

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#advanced #before #communication #distributed #economic

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine. ↗

— Steven Levy

#beautiful thing #been #behind #collaboration #distributed

When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted to start with the blue, and that was the water. One drawing shows the trees under water. I was really moved. ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#crayons #distributed #drawing #everyone #fighting

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fools #lightning #many #right #too