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Quotes About Distributed

Distributed ledger technology is fashionable. In fact, if you could wear it, you'd put Ralph Lauren out of business, at least in my case.
~ Blythe Masters
The blockchain concept was pioneered within the context of crypto-currency Bitcoin, but engineers have imagined many other ways for distributed ledger technology to streamline the world. Stock exchanges and big banks, for example, are looking at blockchain-type systems as trading settlement platforms.
~ Anthony Scaramucci
Jacob Dust," he said. "Shipmind, shipsoul. Synthetic sapience. Distributed man. At your service, beloved.
~ Elizabeth Bear
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.
~ Phil Zimmermann
GitHub has always been a fully distributed company, naturally reaching many of the same conclusions as Automattic about autonomy, empowerment, and trust.
~ Scott Berkun
Those mortgages had been bundled and sliced and diced into complex instruments and distributed around the world. No one really knew where the losses would surface.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.
~ benjamin walter iii
Blockchain is moving beyond cryptocurrency, and it's worth paying attention - especially since successful prototypes show that blockchain, also known as distributed ledger technology, will be transformative.
~ Julie Sweet
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
~ Kevin Kelly
Underground rock protested not just with its sound but in the way it was recorded, marketed, and distributed
~ Michael Azerrad
We're leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go in that direction, just like mainframe computers went to client servers, then to the Internet. I believe in solar, and the macro trends are just too undeniable.
~ Lynn Jurich
Countless banks around the world are already testing distributed ledger systems in proof-of-concept trials.
~ Chris Larsen
Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across the developed world and go straight to clean, distributed power.
~ Alex Honnold
The brain has millions of local processors making important decisions. It is a highly specialized system with critical networks distributed throughout the 1,300 grams of tissue. There is no one boss in the brain. You are certainly not the boss of the brain. Have you ever succeeded in telling your brain to shut up already and go to sleep?
~ Michael S. Gazzaniga
In contrast to Pareto's pyramid and Kuznets's rollercoaster ride, its essence is a distributed network whose many nodes, larger and smaller, are interconnected in a web of flows.
~ Kate Raworth
A distributed ledger is basically a shared database that allows institutions to directly send and receive money in a trustworthy fashion without a middleman. As a result, we have the capacity to connect the world's payment systems for the first time.That's a big deal.
~ Chris Larsen
Myth 2: Leadership is about individuals. In fact, leadership is a distributed or collective capacity in a system, not just something that individuals do. Leadership is about the capacity of the whole system to sense and actualize the future that wants to emerge.
~ C. Otto Scharmer
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.
~ Steven Pinker
The Internet is a clear example of how our lives have changed in ways we couldn't have imagined: a distributed information source, which is invisible to everyone, where you can access anything, and it's distributed throughout the whole world. Basically, communication is instantaneous.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
Can be generalized to politics, anything where the penalty is weak and the victims are abstract and distributed (say taxpayers or shareholders).
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
~ Kevin Kelly
When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale.
~ Dick Costolo
I found out that the idea of the Internet as a highly distributed, redundant global communications system is a myth,'' he discovered. "Virtually all communications between countries take place through a very small number of bottlenecks, and the available bandwidth simply isn't that great.
~ Neal Stephenson
In spite of the food shortages the British people were living better than ever in their lives before, the reason being that what there was got distributed more fairly.
~ Upton Sinclair