“Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and understanding conventional programs, but they only talk about them and cannot alter their ungainly properties. Unlike von Neumann languages, the language of ordinary algebra is suitable both for stating its laws and for transforming an equation into its solution, all within the "language."” LawLanguageUnderstandingSolutionsOrdinaryProgramToolsPropertyReasoningConventionalPreciseEquationsTransformingDescribingSuitableAlgebraSemanticsVon Neumann Author:John Backus
“The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us.” NeedsMadeInternetSmartResourcesProgramToolsOrganizationChaosAvailableLocationFiles Author:Clifford Stoll
“The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.” ChildrenGovernmentPovertyTruth IsProgramToolsSpendingLiftsProbabilityDecreaseGovernment Spending Author:Marco Rubio
“Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.” PeopleHardUsePayRecordsProgramToolsDigitalTapeDownloads Author:Dave Grohl
“Darren Hardy has written a new bible for the self-improvement space. If you are looking for the real deal-a real program, with real tools that can change your life and make your dreams a reality-The Compound Effect is it! I plan to use this book to go back and look at what I need to again work on in my own life! Buy ten copies, one for yourself and nine more for those you love, and pass them out now-those who get it will thank you!” IfsNeedsLooksBookRealSelfUseDreamRealityMy OwnSpaceDealsPlansWrittenEffectsTenSelf ImprovementProgramToolsImprovementNineYour DreamsCopiesChanging Your LifeMy Own LifeCompoundsHardyDarrenThose You Love Author:David Bach
“When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, Convert this to Android format.” WritingEndsUseProgramToolsButtonsFormatOraclesJavaAndroids Author:Larry Ellison
“Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after in order to enable their programs of mass surveillance. If they want to be able to watch the entire population of a country instead of a single individual, you have to go after those bulk interchanges.” IfsWantCountryGovernmentAbleOrderIndividualWatchesKeysInternetMassProgramToolsInternationalPopulationSurveillanceLandingFiberProvidersInterchangeService Providers Author:Edward Snowden
“We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts.” PeopleNeedsChildrenSelfCountryPlayHelpingUseSchoolJobsRealizingLevelsEffortRolesKeysAdultsProgramToolsScientistRaisesTrainExcellenceSelf RespectMathematicianUnprecedentedAutomationAdult Education Book:By any means necessary Source: By any means necessary
“The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.” WorldYearsFirstsDoneBigsBornDiseaseAreasProgramToolsDecadesGet It DoneTropicalMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather than part of its solution.” IfsProblemLanguageDesignSolutionsProgramToolsComplicatedCodeComplexityProgrammers Author:Tony Hoare
“Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.” MayGuyNationsSecurityWillingFoolInternetHeroEvidenceProgramToolsDetailsChinaAgencyPatriotNational SecurityOngoingTraitorSinisterSnowdenEavesdropping Author:Arthur L. Herman
“Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You have to have nurse-home partnerships, early childhood education, mentoring programs and so on. People learn from people they love.” PeopleWorldWayChildrenHomeSchoolCoursesChildhoodProgramToolsNurseIntroducingPartnershipMentoringEarly ChildhoodEarly Childhood EducationVouchers Author:David Brooks
“C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.” ProgramToolsMessEfficientBloodyElegantRazors Book:The Practice of Programming Source: The Practice of Programming
“Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.” KnowsStatesForceProgramToolsPoliceBeing TrueBrandsCommunismWelfareCoercionWelfare StatePolice Force Author:Leonard Read
“ISIS is the most sophisticated terror threat we have ever faced. We are now at a time when we need more tools, not less tools. And that took we lost, the metadata program, was a valuable tool that we no longer have at our disposal.” NeedsLostProgramToolsThreatTerrorValuableSophisticatedIsisMetadata Author:Marco Rubio
“The stuff that I propose are things that I'm ready to govern with. They're not tools to get elected. They are programs and plans to do when you get elected.” StuffPlansReadyProgramToolsPropose Author:John Kasich
“Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.” PeopleGivingShouldHelpingAmericaOpportunityBehindsPromiseOffersProgramToolsLeavingAccessEmpoweringConservatismDisposable Author:Marco Rubio
“The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.” YearsI CanIdeasProblemHandsUsedStepsWindYears AgoProgramToolsSolveProgrammingLogicalPatents Author:John Carmack