Quotes About Span

Computing pioneer Edsger Dijkstra pointed out that computing is the only profession in which a single mind is obliged to span the distance from a bit to a few hundred megabytes, a ratio of 1 to 109, or nine orders of magnitude (Dijkstra 1989).

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!

But I believe that as the quality of these platforms gets better, and as products like Roblox start to look and feel more like a Pixar movie, you're going to see the span of these platforms get bigger, and ultimately I believe there will be a platform company that's as big if not bigger than the publicly traded game publishers.

Mother, any distance greater than a single span requires a second pair of hands.

I know my life's a pain, and but a span;I know my sense is mocked in ev'ry thing:And to conclude, I know myself a man,Which is a proud, and yet a wretched thing.

The whole bloody world's got a commitment problem. It's the three-minute culture. It's a global attention-span deficit.

I'm not sure what the average career span of a WWE superstar is, but I've exceeded that by a long way.

Some stories, some people, deserve their length and span. They merit a novel-length treatment, have things to tell and other lives to illuminate.

Second, you are alive. For the tiniest moment in the span of eternity you have the miraculous privilege to exist.

His attention span is like a minus number," Fauci said privately.

Hero of Ages. Not a Hero that came once in the ages. But a Hero who would span the ages. A Hero who would preserve mankind throughout all its lives and times. Neither Preservation nor Ruin, but both. God.

Which just goes to prove that it's not gossips who decide the span of human life, but God.

human lifetime is 80 years long on average. A person imagines and organizes his life with that span in mind. What I have just said everyone knows, but only rarely do we realize that the number of years granted us is not merely a quantitative fact, an external feature (like nose length or eye color), but is part of the very definition of the human.

The past, with its monstrous depth and span, reached toward him, demanding an understanding that he simply could not give it.

Let us e'er be merry while we may, for man is but dust, and he hath but a span to live here till the worm getteth him, as our good gossip Swanthold sayeth; so let life be merry while it lasts, say I.

Most stories in 'True Blood' take place over a short amount of time. I think the entire three seasons of the show have only spanned a month and a half of those characters' lives.

Public taste is as fickle as a child's attention span

He had wasted the span of my entire life.

I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.

amor es lo que pasa un año de cada diez

Mrs. Kooshof's intolerance for complexity, for the looping circuitry of a well-told tale, symptomizes an epidemic disease of our modern world. (I see it daily among my students. The short attention span, the appetite limited to linearity. Too much Melrose Place.)

An event that was rare in that twenty-five-year span may not be all that rare when placed in a longer historical context. After all, a researcher stands only a one-in-four chance of observing a "hundred-year flood" in twenty-five years

A full appreciation of this crucial position requires an examination of the Confederate defense on this side of Antietam Creek and a walk across the famous Burnside Bridge to explore the IX Corps' efforts to cross the span and push up to this high ground and beyond.

I know I can be stubborn about technology. I hate the name. I hate the clear intention to shrink our attention span even more. But I do it. I go on fucking TikTok.