#applications

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#arouse #astonishment #curiosity #each #fact

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway! ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#applications #beauty #code #course #cross-platform

My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#critical #damage #developed #devices #electrons

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#ads #anyone #applications #book #children

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. ↗

— Larry Wall

#best #free #i #i think #likely

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#applications #device #importance #kind #making

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#attempting #citizenship #doing #downloaded #had

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. ↗

— Dave Parnas

#applications #been #failed #real #repeatedly

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#been #build #close #empower #linux

Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#applications #because #i #need #regardless