#numb

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#audience #avant-garde #because #certain #considered

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#always #became #could #enjoy #excited

And what is the greatest number? Number one. ↗

— David Hume

#greatest number #number

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#few #friends #his #indeed #life

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them. ↗

— Judith Wright

#aware #feelings #habits #i #learned

However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#canadian #centres #closely #enough #examine

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#consumer #diminishing #first #increase #increasing

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. ↗

— John Carmack

#because #clever #competent #extremely #graphics

We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#appliances #control #internet #larger #mobile