#genera

The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#away #earth #explore #further #generation

Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#apple #benefactor #blink #decided #did

I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#banks #bay #bay area #become #food

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#blind #direct #drive #entire #entire generation

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#development #economy #entire #general #generations

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#contemplation #general #just #monks #our

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#antiwar #british #generally #interests #involved

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#feel #generally #i #nap #noon

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#even #generally #important #important thing #in the end

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#adding #always #chief #damn #end