Processes Quotations

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

As we gain more knowledge about materials and processes in the universe, that could open up benefits that we can't even imagine. But you have to be willing to fund science without knowledge of the benefits.

Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.

Videogames make you feel like you're actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered game achievements as real-life achievements. Every time you get to the next level, hot jets of reward chemical coat your brain in a lathery foam, and it seems like you're actually accomplishing stuff.

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.

I've come to realize that artists and scientists are alike. They go through the same processes using different tools. They are both driven to answer the question, 'What if?'

Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.

Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important component of civilization - is it human or mechanical? Must thought processes become involved and insincere? Must the class-struggle warp those who are involved in it?

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.

Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.

Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions are important processes in chemistry because they provide key steps in building complex, bio-active molecules developed as medicines and agrochemicals.

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.

Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.

As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.

Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that's something we need to change - especially when the stakes are high and the decisions are of real import.

This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers.

Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.

Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then you did the print ads, then you did everything else - including the website. Everything has changed, but the systems haven't.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference.

Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.

And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.

The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.

It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it's not easy to maintain that attitude.

I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the acts and processes that keep us alive.

I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain.

At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.

Chips will continue to shrink, of course. We, along with other semiconductor companies, are continuing to push toward the next goal of 10 nm, but going beyond 10 nm will require the development of new technologies, materials, and manufacturing processes that are still being perfected.

I used to have to pick up the phone and talk to people who placed orders for the car. When you reach a certain size, you need to have processes in place.

With the discovery of vast new North American energy resources - thanks to the application of proven technologies like hydraulic fracturing and commonsense regulatory processes on non-federal lands - the U.S. government should no longer be in the business of spending taxpayer dollars on risky, exotic energy projects.

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.

If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.

Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a number of years and so have accumulated observations, found things interesting, been moved to tell stories about them.

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. 'Discreet Music' was like that, and 'Music for Airports.' What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.

We'll be 'outsourcing' our creativity and our thought processes to manufactured components that could be inconspicuously implanted beneath our coiffeurs. Welcome to the Borg. You might not be entirely comfortable with such cybernetic enhancements, but all the smart money says it's going to happen.

I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

One of the more obvious options for smaller firms is the opportunity to outsource certain business processes so that in a sense you off-load a bulk of the compliance work.

One of the reasons we chose API was their phased approach to implementation. We get immediate control in phase one by eliminating paper and moving it electronically in the organization while getting familiar with the new processes that will be instituted in the following phases. It gives us a chance to develop and automate optimized business rules for Network F.O.B.

One of the key challenges facing global organizations like Deloitte is determining how to implement globally consistent business processes and tools to achieve efficiencies and enhance quality. The innovative approach to the Deloitte careers website provides a best practice business case for how this can be accomplished.

New-store growth is a significant contributor to our goal of making Family Dollar a compelling place to shop and invest. As we have indicated, this year we are focused on improving our new-store opening processes and increasing our new-store productivity to drive better returns to our shareholders.

I would describe Steak n Shake as a wonderful small company that had found itself big. It was a natural time to bring some more systematic processes to bear that could ensure high-quality, consistent execution.

One piece of advice... ... Can I use several words? Be prepared for how all-consuming parliamentary life can be but don't be daunted by it. With discipline and camaraderie with your caucus and getting on top of the processes of parliament and parliamentary life, you will be able to work out your work-life balance regarding this job. It is most worthwhile doing if you're a person that wishes to make a privileged contribution to your country and your electorate. It is worthwhile, but don't forget that for you, the person, to function to your peak ability in parliament in quite stressful situations, you must look after you, the person, from time to time and that requires emotional support. And physical nourishment for yourself is important.

None of this sort of news is good for the athlete or good for the sport. We're just going to focus on making sure the policies of the organization and the policies of our partner organizations are followed and that the due processes are put in place so it's done fairly and equitably.

Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

My experience is the military when these things are reported to them, work aggressively to resolve them. Not by way of trying to make any excuses, it's clear that our processes could be shored up to try to prevent some of these from happening.

Obviously these transactions don't make sense unless they transform the business processes end-to-end. It's not enough to set up an Internet lemonade stand outside your firewall and say you're offering services.

New hires and recalls from layoffs... are far below what historical experience indicates, ... To a surprising degree, firms seem to be able to continue identifying and implementing new efficiencies in their production processes and thus have found it possible so far to meet increasing orders without stepping up hiring.

Rick has worked closely with me analyzing the company's structure to determine how we could improve our internal processes and maximize opportunities for growth,

If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We have processes in our hands that allow us to create structures at all scales that at one point we couldn't even have dreamed of.

Since I've been building quantum computers I've come around to thinking about the world in terms of how it processes information.

Sitar crystallizes years of experience working with our leading-edge electronics customers to define world-class business processes for hardware/software co-development. A highly repeatable and scalable methodology is critical to achieving the schedule compression required to gain a competitive advantage in today's fast-paced electronics market.

Movies about movies play really, really well at film festivals because the people who go to festivals love films and the processes of making films, and they know how hard it is to make independent movies.

When you put these services out on the Web, you can also employ new rules that allow for better data gathering, and better data often equates to profitable business being written because the requirements are clear and the processes are defined.

Maintaining a single view of products, customers, locations, and financial accounts is a significant challenge. At its heart, master data management involves changing, consolidating, and rationalizing core processes such as new product introduction or customer (or patient/citizen/supplier) registration and ongoing management. The greatest complexity comes from these business process changes and process integration issues, over and above the data integration requirements.

Lucent will continue to review its internal processes throughout fiscal year 2001, which may result in additional cost structure improvements and associated business restructuring charges as it moves from a multi-divisional company to one with a single focus on the service provider market,

Siebel has provided a consistent vision for the CRM industry for over a decade. With Customer Adaptive Solutions -- and everything they represent -- the company is laying out a new vision for customer facing applications that are more flexible and better able to accommodate customer input. This will enable Siebel users to be more responsive to customers and enable the kind of customer centric processes that drive loyalty and, ultimately, repeat business.

Several processes have been initiated over the last couple of years that not only reduce the amount of paper used, but also help the firm operate more efficiently.

On a personal level, I've known Jon since his days back in the '80s as a staff member of the ACC. He's a guy who listens, processes information and then, I think, makes very good judgments in terms of the things we may be discussing at a particular point in time.

The Principal(R) is very pleased to provide employees of our home state a robust investment platform that includes the Principal Investors Funds LifeTime Funds--a simple, yet powerful way to invest effectively for retirement. Principal LifeTime options give participants easy access to portfolios professionally managed to a specific retirement year. Through the partnership with Nationwide, State of Iowa employees will have access to well known investment managers and some of the most thorough due diligence processes in the industry.

Key to the adaptive enterprise is the ability to quickly transform business processes and for these changes to be easily reflected in the supporting Enterprise Applications. From an Enterprise Application perspective the importance of gaining a good understanding of the current processes cannot be underestimated, as on many occasions the software is unfairly blamed for problems that are in fact due to inefficient or poor processes.

There are slow geochemical processes that can create spherical shapes and filamentous forms. The 'eye of the beholder' may guide us where to look...but that is not proof,

There are so many ways by which materials handling technologies and processes serve that need.

I am delighted to be recognized and honored by InformationWeek Magazine. I share this with our entire team of IT personnel and with The Salvation Army's leaders in the Western Territory who helped us streamline processes and boost efficiency so that more of our donor's dollars can be spent helping people with needed programs and services.

Gnarly processes often display patterns at several scales. We find them fun to watch because they tend to appear as if they're alive.

I executed a coup ... and it would be loath of me to leave the process half-done in terms of the processes of law.

But we want to give the Air Force the option of exploring all of their thought processes with (the Pentagon) and not have to cross a trip wire from which there is no return.

Business Process Networks take the concept of software-as-a-service to a new level. By focusing on transaction-intensive processes, extending common business processes across multiple companies and leveraging shared connections, we are able to accelerate the adoption cycles and significantly lower operating costs.

Business confidence in general is improving--decision makers are investing in processes and technologies, which drive revenue generation and enable business accountability.

But the processes out there, I think, are too heavy weight.

But these processes have been distorted by the prime minister. So in the end, we have an elected politician who can remain above the law with no mechanism to deal with it -- no accountability, no responsibility. That to me is not democracy.

Basically, I'm a juggler. I can put many factors in order, aligning people, processes and money.

Basic research has shown that in the arteries in the heart, that inflammatory processes that are reflected by higher levels of CRP may play a role in the development of hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis,

What we have here, I think, is quite a lot of noise with respect to this matter of clinical practice, who should decide, and what have you, ... but not enough information on the part of physicians and patients about how processes are actually working.

We think eBay may have revised its processes enough to minimize its liability. However, at minimum, eBay would be liable for the original $25 million.

With many of our staff working remotely, wireless connectivity is crucial. Meeting Maker Mobile Powered by Intellisync has streamlined our scheduling processes by enabling our administrators to view the availability of our remote staff before scheduling new meetings with them. These remote users are then notified directly on their devices of these new meetings, eliminating the need for endless phone calls, voicemails and emails.

We're obviously pleased to be finished with it. It's made us better. We examined all of our processes and controls, and I really think we have strengthened our financial reporting and controls.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

Having a combined Strategic Planning and Business Development function will give us greater ability to leverage our focused business strategies and capitalize on market opportunities. Tom's broader responsibilities will further enhance his team's effectiveness in identifying future strategic opportunities. Our record results for 2005 underline the significant progress we have made in realigning the division, streamlining processes and strengthening the business. These two appointments mark a very positive step in the development of Deutsche Asset Management.

He is badly beaten up. It took 24 hours for his brain to recuperate and for his thought processes to announce it was the closest to death he knew of.

Historically, the software industry has been an industry in which it was fine to have months or years in between product cycles. That is something that has been part of Microsoft's processes as well.

I find this more troubling than deception in the political campaigns. The level of misunderstanding and the consequences of misunderstanding can be much more dramatic. If we don't hold the right people accountable and the right processes accountable, we'll risk having another catastrophe without real preparedness, and more people will die needlessly.

We've been thinking a lot about inspiration. We wanted to see if the processes involved with creating visual arts and writing songs could come together in one place.

The purpose of the conference is to highlight the emerging field of industrial biotechnology, which is being used to convert agricultural wastes to renewable energy and to make many types of manufacturing processes more environmentally sustainable.

My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

MasterCard International has always worked aggressively to identify and eliminate any illegal activity involving the use of its global payment network, including child pornography. The systems and processes we have developed to combat the use of payment cards for any illegal activity, including our ongoing involvement with global law enforcement communities, provide us with some excellent tools and resources to help eliminate what has sadly become a complex and growing industry based on the exploitation of children around the world.

Some of those reports are filed and then go into a black hole. Other times there are no reports. The processes were there, but just because they're in place doesn't necessarily mean that people are going to follow them.

State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous and then dies of itself. The government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of the processes of production. The state is not 'abolished'. It withers way.

State-of-the-art IT is increasingly finding its way into learning processes in schools, which is why we are placing such an emphasis on it.

Past food service bid processes have lasted between nine and 12 months. During this process, a considerable amount of time is spent upon gathering input regarding service and price preferences from various elements of the campus. These inputs are then balanced and included in the bid specifications.

Organizations have started to create road maps that will enable their transition to a service-oriented architecture. As such, the SAP TechEd events create a community for success by allowing customers, partners and developers to share and accelerate knowledge surrounding SAP NetWeaver while they discover how existing processes and IT landscapes can be transformed into enablers of business innovation and change.

Organizations would do well to build decision trees and develop workflow processes to handle probable escalations or situations likely to occur based on previous customer interactions.

Our objective is to create a lean, agile structure, with streamlined processes that will unleash DaimlerChrysler's full potential.

Oracle is doing a good job of addressing security in its products, but they haven't figured out how security fits into their internal processes and overall architecture,

I will not stand in the way of anything that would lead to a continuation of the reform processes that I started, and a stable government in Germany,