“Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.” WorldGivenStudentsAmountProgramFundGrantsAwardsEmphasisFundingTuitionPell Grants Author:Charles M. Vest
“Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.” ThinkingShouldEvilOpportunityStrongForgetWorryAmountWasteNegativeProgramRootsImpactCriticalSpeedEnormousEfficiencyProgrammersMaintenancePrematureOptimizationDebugging Author:Donald Knuth
“Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington.” YearsStillsProblemPoliticalPresidentLeaderExampleChangedAmountNeededProgramLaborUnionsSolveMassiveOne TimeCashGovernorsConsensusFundingStimulusMayorsCongressmanBusiness LeadersParalysisLabor UnionInfusion Author:Steve Kroft
“In 2006, the number of children in targeted school choice programs nationwide will reach six digits for the first time, representing a 40 percent increase in the number of children in targeted school choice programs and an even bigger increase in the amount of public funding.” FirstsChildrenSchoolChoicesNumbersAmountSixPercentFirst TimeProgramBiggerIncreaseFundingRepresentingSchool Choice Author:Clint Bolick
“When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our Unix System 5 that we directly own or is related to one of our flavors of Unix that we have derivative works rights over--we don't necessarily own those flavors, but we have control rights over how that information gets disseminated--the amount is substantial. We're not talking about just lines of code; we're talking about entire programs. We're talking about hundred [sic] of thousands of lines of code.” TodayLinesViewsTalkingRightsInformationAmountHundredProgramCodeRelatedFlavorNot TalkingShowing UpDerivativesLinuxUnix Author:Darl McBride
“Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.” IfsStatesGovernmentPoliticalWealthSupportAmountMembersProgramWideSpendingScalesFinanceVarietyWelfareProductiveMassiveMechanismAcademicSchemesTaxationDeficitResortsPolitical PowerExpendituresWelfare StateLarge ScaleJargonDeficit Spending Author:Alan Greenspan
“If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.” PeopleIfsWellsHelpingRealityKidsWantedJobsPoliticsCommunityDifferencesWorkPoorMoneyEducationClassPovertyMiddleCarPolicyStudentsCollegeAmountOffersShotsProgramBiggerMajorityStrategyPropertyPopulationAccessExtrasGuaranteesReliefMiddle ClassPoor PeopleLoanSmall AmountsHelp The PoorStudent LoanHelp Poor People Author:Megan McArdle
“Indeed, the quantity of PCBs still in use plus the quantity still languishing in waste dumps exceeds the total amount that has already escaped into the general environment. Without a program to recall and contain them, semivolatile PCBs will continue to insinuate themselves into the food chain for decades.” StillsUseEnvironmentAmountWasteProgramEnvironmentalDecadesChainsPlusQuantityPollutionRecallsExceedDumpFood Chain Book:Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood Source: Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood
“The ending of my experience with cocaine came in a periodic way. I would get high less frequently, I would use smaller amounts, and I would do coke for less periods of time. And that process just kept increasing and increasing until I wasn't using it at all. I didn't go on a program anywhere. I didn't join an organization or detox anywhere. I just slowly tapered off until it was gone. That was also true of my heavy pot use. I just tapered off until there was almost no use at all. And the same thing was true of drinking tons of beer.” WayUseProcessGoneGoes OnAmountPeriodsProgramOrganizationDrinkingHeavyBeerPotCocaineCokeGetting High Author:George Carlin
“In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund:] the marvelous economic management and great reform. The only problem was for most of the population it was a kind of like a blow in the solar plexus: wages going down, benefits being eliminated, subsidized food gone and meanwhile, high concentration of wealth and a huge amount of corruption.” WorldKindChildrenProblemGrowthWealthGoneEconomicHugeAmountBenefitsSpringProgramManagementInternationalPopulationBlowCorruptionReformConcentrationFundMarvelousEgyptWagesMonetaryPostersArab SpringImfWorld BankConcentration Of Wealth Author:Noam Chomsky
“The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.” IdeasMemoriesPowerfulAmountSkillsComputerProgramImmenseFeedingVery PowerfulSmall AmountsPersonal Computers Author:Bill Gates
“The changes are coming so quickly it's been difficult for workers to retrain themselves and for entrepreneurs to figure out where the next opportunities may be. The catalyst is something called computer learning or artificial intelligence - the ability to feed massive amounts of data into supercomputers and program them to teach themselves and improve their performance.” MayNextOpportunityDifficultAbilityTeachFiguresAmountComputerProgramPerformancesEntrepreneurWorkersDataMassiveArtificial IntelligenceArtificialCatalystSupercomputers Author:Andrew McAfee
“I think it is less the limited amount of information than the filters that information about the Middle East must pass through before being fairly addressed in the mainstream media. In more intellectual and geopolitical terms, the perceptions of the region are distorted by a combination of Orientalism and the priorities of the state of Israel, including the refusal to discuss the relevance of Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal in the context of addressing Iran on its nuclear program.” ThinkingStatesTermMiddleMediaInformationAmountPerceptionWeaponsIntellectualProgramIncludingIsraelEastNuclearPrioritiesCombinationRegionsIranMainstreamMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsRelevanceRefusalArsenalFiltersMainstream MediaGeopoliticalOrientalism Author:Richard A. Falk
“A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.” PeopleLittlesHandsEnergyEnjoyWatchesToo MuchCrazyAmountCoupleShotsMy FriendsNegativeProgramBlowDamnMotorcycleTequilaShots Of Tequila Author:Queen Latifah
“I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.” WatchesGoes OnAmountOceanProgramFishes Author:Karl Pilkington