“It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.” TryingLooksProveCapableModelsStandardsProgramReasonableDynamics Author:Seth Lloyd
“Curt Gowdy was a pioneer in our business and set the highest standards for everyone. His many contributions to ABC as host of 'American Sportsman' and other ABC Sports programs are indelible .” SportsHighestStandardsProgramContributionHostPioneersSportsmanIndelible Author:George Bodenheimer
“There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making us more vulnerable not just to the snooping of our domestic agencies, but also foreign agencies.” UseMillionsProductsStandardsProgramVulnerableAgencyInsecureDefaultNsaEncryptionSnooping Author:Edward Snowden
“The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability; but to improve this easily attainable standard requires much application and more than a trace of wisdom. If you merely try to bring just a little extra knowledge and cleverness to bear upon your investment program, instead of realizing a little better than normal results, you may well find that you have done worse.” IfsTryingWellsMayLittlesArtDoneRealizingResultsEffortBearsNormalStandardsProgramLaysInvestmentInvestingCharacteristicsExtrasApplicationInvestorsCapabilityMinimumAppreciatedCleverness Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
“The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel.” MayLanguageNovelStandardsProgramProofDefinedProgrammingEstablishmentFormalProposalProgramming LanguagesRigorSemanticsProcessors Author:Robert W. Floyd
“I'm for higher standards measured in an intellectually honest way, with abundant school choice, ending social promotion. And I know how to do this because as governor of the state of Florida I created the first statewide voucher program in the country, the second statewide voucher program, in the country and the third statewide voucher program in the country.” KnowsWayFirstsCountryStatesSchoolChoicesSocialKnow HowHonestHigherStandardsProgramThirdsGovernorsFloridaPromotionHigher StandardsVouchersSchool Choice Author:Jeb Bush
“The capitalist has this over the politician and the clergyman; he has in practice done more to raise the standard of living of the poor than all the government and church programs in history....Monsanto and the Archer Daniels Midland Company have fed more hungry people than all the...soup kitchens combined.” PeopleDoneGovernmentChurchPoorCompanyPracticePoliticianStandardsProgramRaisesHungryKitchenFedsCapitalistSoupStandards Of LivingClergymenArcherMonsantoSoup Kitchens Author:Dinesh D'Souza
“I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least not in the standard sense of nonfiction, nor especially in the way we were thinking about nonfiction back then, in the late 90s.” ThinkingWayPoetLateStandardsProgramNonfiction Author:John D'Agata
“We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.” YearsKindStandardsProgramJournalismCan NotProfessionalism Author:Jon Stewart
“Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.” GovernmentWorstStandardsProgramIntentionFuelFederal Government Author:Bob Beauprez
“...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a week...If I as a human being were told that the standards by which animals are being measured in these experiments are human standards, I would be insulted.” IfsWayHumansFactsWould BeAbleValuesHuman BeingsAnimalWeekIndustryStandardsProgramExperimentsJungleStarvationBeing MeResearchersExperimentationInsultedMazesImbecilesBorneo Book:Elizabeth Costello Source: Elizabeth Costello