#quantity

The world has changed from quality to quantity, and so have we. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life #quality #quantity #world #change

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” - Lord Henry Wotton. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#capitalism #material #money #possessions #priorities

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants. ↗

— William John Wills

#clothes #comes #does #everyone #foolish

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#denotes #exchange #existing #given #objects

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#important #more #operations #quality #quantity

A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated secret statistical algorithms recombine the fragments. I disagree. A trope from the early days of computer science comes to mind: garbage in, garbage out. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#quality #quantity #technology #web #science

There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on within the human mind, or you can believe we just don't understand what quality in a mind is yet, even though we might someday. Either of those opinions allows one to distinguish quantity and quality. In order to confuse quantity and quality, you have to reject both possibilities. The mere possibility of there being something ineffable about personhood is what drives many technologists to reject the notion of quality. They want to live in an airtight reality that resembles an idealized computer program, in which everything is understood and there are no fundamental mysteries. They recoil from even the hint of a potential zone of mystery or an unresolved seam in one's worldview. This desire for absolute order usually leads to tears in human affairs, so there is a historical reason to distrust it. Materialist extremists have long seemed determined to win a race with religious fanatics: Who can do the most damage to the most people? ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#personhood #quality #quantity #religion #religion

That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information. ↗

— Julian Assange

#any #caliber #disclosures #enormous #enough

I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community. ↗

— Joe Baca

#consider #i #improve #increase #priority

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#another way #concerned #continue #democracy #expansive