logo

Quotes About Parallelism

Electronic circuits are millions of times faster than our biological circuits. At first we will have to devote all of this speed increase to compensating for the relative lack of parallelism in our computers, but ultimately the digital neocortex will be much faster than the biological variety and will only continue to increase in speed.
~ Ray Kurzweil
and we're both dead at the same time.
~ Alice Notley
We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.
~ Rob Pike
in contrast to the second and third lines, would seem perfectly to confirm the synonymous conception of parallelism: "Ada and Zilla, O hearken my voice. / You wives of Lamech, give ear to my speech.
~ Robert Alter
The Republic is based on the assumption that there is a strict parallelism between the city and the soul.
~ Leo Strauss
The justice of those who are not wise appears in a different light when justice in the city is being considered, on the one hand, and justice in the soul on the other. This fact shows that the parallelism between the city and the soul is defective. This parallelism requires that, just as in the city the warriors occupy a higher rank than the money-makers, so in the soul spiritedness occupy a higher rank than desire.
~ Leo Strauss
All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?
~ Douglas Kennedy
Organizar em perfeito paralelismo a minha vida prática e a minha vida especulativa, de modo a que a primeira nunca possa prejudicar a segunda, à qual está, por um dever mais alto, subordinada.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.
~ James Mark Baldwin
Absolute parallelism of stylistic approach in the different arts and genres presupposes a level of development on which art no longer has to wrestle for the means of expression, but is able, to a certain extent, to choose freely among the different possibilities of formal treatment.
~ Arnold Hauser
Sometimes I wish I could clone myself, you know, be in two places at once.
~ Peter Kay
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Just having an abstract conversation about linguistic parallelism.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I think the thing that we agreed to so many years ago, actually, was that the music didn't have to support the dance nor the dance illustrate the music, but they could be two things going on at the same time.
~ Merce Cunningham
always use the proper synchronization whenever data is shared across threads. 3.1.1.
~ Brian Goetz
We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there.
~ Kate Grenville
Stateless objects are always thread-safe.
~ Brian Goetz
Immutable objects are always thread-safe.
~ Brian Goetz
parallelism may be the only poetic device that can be fully translated from one language to another.? Thus the Bible, translated into hundreds of languages, maintains its original poetic form and effects in every tongue, a linguistic curiosity that is clearly God's design.
~ Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
~ Henry Adams
There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
H]e (Socrates) thus implies that there is a parallelism between the city and the human individual or, more precisely, between the city and the soul of the human individual. This means that the parallelism between the city and the human individual is based upon a certain abstraction from the human body.
~ Leo Strauss
As above, so below.
~ Dan Brown