#thousand

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#computer #fact #field #i #in fact

More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#consumed #even #four #good #great

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#after #between #black #black and white #board

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#taste #thousand

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#back #chaos #collapse #disappear #environment

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#also #america #center #centers #children

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#china #chinese #home #how #itself

In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#basically #been #before #got #great

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home. ↗

— Harpo Marx

#beverly hills #brothers #called #children #conditions

That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record. ↗

— Roger McGuinn

#back #because #company #days #dollars