#precedent

The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#both #content #deal #expressions #functions

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#capital #combination #contract #culture #deep

After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#anything #bailout #bill #billion #budget

This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#going #police #precedent #right #very

We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before. ↗

— J Allard

#before #console #done #going #holiday

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#current #current situation #degree #distrust #exacerbated

These are times of unprecedented challenge and change in the airline industry, and the appointments we are announcing today will put American in an even stronger position to continue the substantial progress that has already been made under the tenets of our Turnaround Plan. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#already #american #announcing #appointments #been

A precedent embalms a principle. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#principle

Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#earlier #everybody #i #i think #issues

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#american men #been #before #bulwark #communities