#analog

(Wash) I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar! ↗

— Joss Whedon

#firefly #humour #spirit #spirit

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest ↗

— Winston Churchill

#public-speaking #simile #speaking #speech

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity ↗

— Stephen King

#analogy #disapproval #motto #pacifism #paradox

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#analog #becoming #com #completely #new

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#animal #animal world #appears #human #human language

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part. ↗

— John Deacon

#analogy #being #best #effect #everything

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#carries #discourse #even #every #methodology

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#independence #miracle #nationality #physical #political

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#another #belong #cannot #fallacy #languages

Regardless what technology is, I like analog too. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#i #like #regardless #technology #too