Quotes About Topology

#1. A snitch determines which data centers and racks to go for in order to make Cassandra aware of the network topology for routing the requests efficiently.

C.Y. Kan

#2. Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#3. People simply can't accept that patterns carry their own intelligence, quite apart from the semantic content that clings to their surfaces; if you manipulate the topology correctly, that content just comes along for the ride.

Peter Watts

#4. Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global ...

Rene Thom

#5. Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

Henri Poincare

#6. Topology and number theory are my faves.

Janna Levin

#7. Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after.

Steven L. Peck

#8. Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.

Neal Stephenson

#9. The Gang of Four may have run multiple systems on a single motherboard, but each had its own distinct topology and they only surfaced one at a time.

Peter Watts

#10. Fraa Jad took the garment from me and discovered how the fly worked. "Topology is destiny," he said, and put the drawers on.

Neal Stephenson

#11. Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

Vladimir Arnold

#12. Overwhelming: he could do anything he wanted. But the grand sum of anything-at-all was nothing-at-all. The topology of freedom offered no gradients to nudge him, no landmarks to guide him.

Ian Tregillis

#13. I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.

Whitfield Diffie

#14. In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything.

Edward Witten

#15. A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?

Jacques Lacan

#16. Christ Bleeding," Makin said, staring into the valley below us. "How ... " "Topology," I said. "It's a kind of magic.

Mark Lawrence

#17. Commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.

John C. Baez

#18. Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has ... topology ... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.

Raymond Louis Wilder

#19. There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.

Edward Witten

#20. Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#21. I hope you aren't too ugly. What a collection of scars you have. Be grateful. Our scars have the ability to give us the reality that our past is real. - Red Dragon

Anonymous

#22. Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood.

David D. Burns

#23. I shall be forever grateful to you for breaking whatever unfortunate object you did in order to rescue me."
"Something had to be done, she said, "and it was a very ugly vase.

Tasha Alexander

#24. tried to raise money for him, to enhance

David Brooks

#25. Mercer!" Charlie

Kym Brunner

#26. Time and space were, from Death's point of view, merely things that he'd heard described. When it came to Death, they ticked the box marked Not Applicable. It might help to think of the universe as a rubber sheet, or perhaps not.

Terry Pratchett

#27. We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#28. Erchomai , I am coming
Veni, I have come

Cassandra Clare

#29. One should practice much sense, not much learning.

Democritus

#30. What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?"
"Well, at least we'd all be running in the same direction!

Charles M. Schulz

#31. There are more valuable things in life than safety and comfort. Learn. You owe it to yourself.

Nnedi Okorafor

#32. It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

#33. Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

Martin L. Gross

#34. My stars shine darkly over
me

William Shakespeare