#substantial

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

#chance #defect #fixing #fundamental #fundamental problem

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed. ↗

— John Engler

#bill #completion #day #delay #every

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#creatures #dead #dependent #land #leading

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#avoid #belief #cannot #dispense #ever

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved. ↗

— Keith Henson

#cults #current #environment #evolved #fraction

2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve. ↗

— Baldwin Spencer

#direct #economy #investments #number #opens

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth. ↗

— Gary Larson

#changed #comparable #demands #diversity #earth

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#i #i think #now #really #substantial

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#great #great advantage #philosophy #substantially #system

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#energy #factor #flight #fraction #ignored