#once

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#concentrate #could #decisive #details #essential

As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually. ↗

— Edward Witten

#atoms #concerned #dimensions #everyday #everyday life

On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined. ↗

— Edward Witten

#completely #concept #defined #dimensions #fuzziness

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#language #learned #pain #you

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#concern #him #himself #occupy #philosopher

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. ↗

— James Wolcott

#divide #folly #holding #into #just

Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.' ↗

— James Wolcott

#adam sandler #badly #cable #catch #chunk

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#bets #changes #comedy #drama #mass

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#flow #funny #hit #how #memory

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#children #concerned #deal #deeply #development