Quotes About Application

Memorizing information is valuable but only if you're able to make some sense of the information and put it into a useful context. Isn't it much better if we can attach something tangible to that information?

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.

I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can see people do not have to learn the vast number of formulae they used to learn. Instead, they have to learn to use the computer effectively. This frees them, I feel, to understand concepts and the foundations while they're learning the mechanics of the application of the theory.

all the higher grades of science, imagination and intuition play an increasingly important role over and above intellect and its capacity for application.

try to plant the results of my experience in the soil of reality;

As long as concepts are identical with mere words, the variation is almost imperceptible and plays no practical role. But when an exact definition or a careful explanation is needed, one can occasionally discover the most amazing variations, not only in the purely intellectual understanding of the term, but particularly in its emotional tone and its application. As a rule, these variations are subliminal and therefore never realized.

Collecting information is easy. Reviewing and applying information is hard.

Leisure Lesson #3: Seek activities that require real-world,

2: Use skills to produce valuable things in the physical world.

Finding useful new technologies is just the first step to improving your life. The real benefits come once you start experimenting with how best to use them.

Leisure Lesson #2: Use skills to produce valuable things in the physical world.

Without application, preaching is at best a lecture and at worst entertainment.

Axiom #3: When told how to apply sermons specifically, most people over-congratulate themselves on how biblically they already live while thinking of others who could really use the sermon.

Most people would rather listen to sermons than act on them.

Preachers must always be thinking of the application all the time they are dispensing information.

Once people know what the Bible says, their next questions are: So what? How to? Where do I start?

Application is what gets the Sermon off the Mount, and down in the valley where the toilers live out their days.

The most popular application of blockchain technology is cryptocurrency, a token (usually scarce) that is cryptographically secured and transferred. The scarcity is what assures the possibility of value and is itself an innovation of blockchain.

You can study the rules until your eyes fall out of your head, but if you cannot recall which rule fits your particular situation just before some large ship hits you broadside, then a study of the rules has failed you at the worst possible time.

Carnot, one of a school of mathematicians who emphasized the relationship of mathematics to scientific practice, appears, in spite of the title of his work, to have been more concerned about the facility of application of the rules of procedure than about the logical reasoning involved.

Thus the required rigor was found in the application of the concept of number, made formal by divorcing it from the idea of geometrical quantity

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit—wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.