#general

I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#create #decision #decisions #existing #facing

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#complex #daily #daily work #distributed #example

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#achievement #atom #atom bomb #became #bomb

Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#assembly #called #elimination #first #general

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth. ↗

— Alan Rudolph

#general #global #lies #new #new truth

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. ↗

— John Ruskin

#best #business #call #generally #grotesque

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#defined #desires #freedom #general #may

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#consists #enjoying #generally #greatest #greatest pleasure

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate. ↗

— Sallust

#every #feelings #generally #most #moved

No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. ↗

— Andy Samberg

#general #growing #how #internet #matter