Quotes About Application

whatever you have, you use it or you lose it!

If your private actions do not generalize, then you cannot have general ideas.

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

People with an engineering-oriented mind will tend to look at everything around as an engineering problem. This is a very good thing in engineering, but when dealing with cats, it is a much better idea to hire veterinarians than circuit engineers…

Universal behavior is great on paper, disastrous in practice.

Take this simple heuristic—does the scientific researcher whose ideas are applicable to the real world apply his ideas to his daily life? If so, take him seriously. Otherwise, ignore him.

As the great game theorist Ariel Rubinstein holds: do your theories or mathematical representations, don't tell people in the real world how to apply them. Let those with skin in the game select what they need.

they were of no use to anyone outside IBM.

Many kids would learn to love mathematics if they had some investment in it, and, more crucially, they would build an instinct to spot its misapplications.

No, we don't put theories into practice. We create theories out of practice.

Relies on scientific papers, goes from books to practice

The exploration of possibility has always been the realm of science. The true scientist leave practical application to others.

Kind of an early warning system originally developed to fight terrorism, but isn't it nice to know we can now use it for civilian purposes?

knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all.

Biblical wisdom is a process that begins with gaining knowledge, then choosing to set aside our former ways of thinking, and then putting this new knowledge into practice.

making possible huge economies of scale in the application of force majeure. (Subjects whose mind-bogglingly vast numbers beggar Agent First's imagination: it makes no sense, who needs that many slaves?)

I have always had an uncomfortable relationship with math. I don't like numbers for the sake of numbers. I am not impressed by fancy formulas that have no real-world application. I particularly disliked high school calculus for the simple reason that no one ever bothered to tell me why I needed to learn it. What is the area beneath a parabola? Who cares?

Several of the high schools consistently at the top of the rankings are selective enrollment schools, meaning that students must apply to get in, and only a small proportion of those students are accepted.

Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's the more important mission of math education.

In mobile, people really love having single-use case experiences. They want low friction to getting to the application's use case.

Biblical justice is the equitable application of God's moral law in society.

The gift of clever phrasing may be a curse unless the phrases are put to the test of sound, practical application before being uttered.

Scientific knowledge does not contain within itself directions for its humanitarian use.

There is a difference between memorizing Scripture and thinking biblically.