#applied

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#better #branches #difficult #had #mathematicians

I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off. ↗

— Scott Foley

#college #here #i #into #jumped

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ↗

— Bill Gates

#any #applied #automation #business #efficiency

We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#bands #electronic #like #out #rock

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#because #been #before #corporate #corporate world

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw. ↗

— James Merrill

#around #believed #beyond #college #dead

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#circumstances #common #common sense #historical #i

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#applied #got #harvard #i #repertory

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#applied #choice #dedicated #faculty #i

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#applied #bears #bound #category #does