“The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.” IndividualSimplePiecesDegreesProgramIncrediblesSoftwareFinest Author:Bill Gates
“In going directly to Investment Heaven, you build your portfolio as you would build a wonderful company through a merger and acquisition program. You specify the way you want your portfolio to look, and then you assemble the profile piece by piece by bringing together companies that make their own individual contributions to the desired character.” WayWantLooksCharacterTogetherIndividualHeavenCompanyPiecesWonderfulProgramInvestmentContributionAcquisitionProfilePortfoliosMergersMergers And Acquisitions Author:Robert Haugen
“The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how well ID stacks up as a scientific alternative to Darwinism. To gauge how well ID is doing as a platform for scientific research, I logged into the best database of the biological literature. A search for keyword ''evolution'' yielded 24,000 hits in the last decade. A search for ''intelligent design'' yielded not a single piece of research. Evolution by natural selection remains the basis of every successful biological research program.” WellsIdeasLastsAsksLiteratureNaturalReligiousSuccessfulPiecesAtheismDesignEvolutionResearchProgramBasesIntelligentRemainsPositive AtheismDecadesAlternativesJudgedPlatformsSelectionCriteriaNatural SelectionDarwinismScientific ResearchGaugesIntelligent DesignDatabasesKeywords Author:Chet Raymo
“We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past--the portrayals of family life on such television programs as "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" and all the rest.” KnowsWayRealPastRememberCoursesFatherFamilyPiecesChildhoodTelevisionProgramAnd LoveVideoCombinationCollectivesBitternessParenthoodFamily LifePortrayalBeaversFather Knows Best Book:Childhood's Future Source: Childhood's Future
“In order to always treat others, as we would wish to be treated ourselves, we have to learn about each other. Not just relying on an op-ed piece we may have read here, or a half-remembered interview on the television program there that happens to chime with our own views.” MayHappensOrderWishViewsHalfPiecesTelevisionProgramTreatsTreatedRememberedInterviewsChimes Author:Karen Armstrong
“The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.” AudiencePiecesProgramFinishedPerformersEncores Author:Hilary Hahn
“The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.” MovingBlackBreakKnowingPiecesProgramTreatsBoxesTricksBlack Boxes Author:Bill Gates