#pac

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#about #achieve #brain #capacity #human

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

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#confront #courage #imagined

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#beyond #confined #confined space #hang #last

You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do. ↗

— Karl Rove

#attentively #body #capacity #certain #congress

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#capacity #empathize #enables #envision #experiences

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#day #days #i #play #space

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns. ↗

— Mike Royko

#columns #editorials #good #hollywood #impact

It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#antonio #being #block #broken #deeply

A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#asia #australia #best #century #challenge