“There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.” KindLongAbleDifferencesInternetWalkingDegreesDistancePhonesEnormousPocketsGoogleCheaperPhone CallsLong DistancePdaRiyadh Author:Thomas Friedman
“It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being able to say that the world will be warmer by about a quarter of a degree in the next decade. It's the same reason we had 10 years ago when we said that the 1990s would be warmer than the 1980s: The planet is out of equilibrium.” WorldYearsSaidReasonWould BeAbleNextDifficultNaturalPlanetsDegreesYears AgoDecadesArguingGlobal WarmingQuartersEquilibriumVariability Author:James Hansen
“I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.” PeopleArtAbleFineDegreesUniversityFine Arts Author:Julia Child
“A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.” MenAbleDegreesConcentration Author:Lawrence LeShan
“Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.” AbleLanguageDegreesElementsChemistryChemicalsTransformedEmployedNomenclature Author:Antoine Lavoisier
“Back in 2005, when I was Christopher Eccleston, we saw one of the largest increases on record, of CO2 in the atmosphere. Unless we keep the rise in global temperature to under 2 degrees, by the time I'm Daniel Radcliffe or wee Jimmy Crankie, I won't be able to save the planet. I won't be here to help you -- well I might, but I'll be that bloke who won Any Dream Will Do.” WellsHelpingDreamMightAbleRecordsSawsPlanetsDegreesIncreaseAtmosphereTemperatureJimmyCo2BlokesSave The Planet Author:David Tennant
“Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what the truth is, but they can tell when someone is trying to lead them astray or sell them something shady. I think he had that ability to an amazing degree. I also think he thought, without saying it explicitly, that you can convince a crowd of something that's not true more easily than you can one person at a time.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingMayPersonsBookAbleLyingLanguageAbilityExampleTruth IsDegreesSellsCrowdsConvinceKnackShady Author:George Orwell
“The traditional dictionary definition of the difference is that an alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout, come to, and apologize for it. A junkie will steal your wallet and then help you look for it. But ultimately I think all addictions boil down to just not being able to be with yourself for any long degree of time.” ThinkingLooksLongHelpingAbleDifferencesDegreesAddictionDefinitionsStealingTraditionalApologizingAlcoholicsDictionaryJunkieWalletsBlackouts Author:Jerry Stahl