#practical

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#computer #easy #everyone #general #going

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#also #becomes #lives #longer #mathematics

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#charity #common #common sense #democracy #economic

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#bearing #both #deny #international #men

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#connected #fortunes #future #immediately #intensely

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#computing #correctly #forever #once #performs

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#between #condition #could #difference #his

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#because #chair #conservative #day #different

I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#course #crosby #everybody #great #ground

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