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Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine...) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea. -- Bertrand Meyer
Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat. -- Dinsha Patel
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. -- Claes Oldenburg
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods. -- Irwin Redlener
I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease. -- David Chang
The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort. -- Dan Shechtman
That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale. -- Phil Collen
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. -- David Rockefeller
I loved doing 'Rock of Ages' in N.Y. and that, but its such a large scale, and so many things go into it. -- Tom Lenk
I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another. -- Craig Mundie
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible. -- Yuan T. Lee
In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food. -- Frans de Waal
War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale! -- Graydon Carter
The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high. -- John P. Kotter
I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale. -- Richard Eyre
Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such a large scale before, both in terms of what George R.R. Martin wrote and what's on the show. -- Alex Graves
On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food. -- Ramez Naam
If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question. -- James Collins
When I did '21 Jump Street,' I felt like I was a part of something great, but on a very large scale. Working with people that genuinely want to make good art or good work or a good film, that's what keeps me going. -- Spencer Boldman
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing. -- David Rockefeller
To be straight, I was kind of a dork, and in order to fulfill the creative fires burning inside me, I participated vigorously as a Civil War re-enactor through most of my teenage years, traveling across the country to participate in large scale reenactments - grandiose plays enacted by over weight history buffs and war enthusiasts alike. -- Cary Fukunaga
There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that because we're evolved to understand things that move at a medium pace at a medium scale. We can't cope with the very tiny scale of quantum physics or the very large scale of relativity. -- Richard Dawkins
Longing on a large scale makes history. -- Don DeLillo
Geoengineering means changing the Earth's fundamental large-scale processes. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations. -- Noam Chomsky
Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it. -- John P. Kotter
Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people. -- Thom Mayne
Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea -- Stewart Friedman
Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale. -- Donna Tartt
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. -- Don DeLillo
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. -- Vladimir Putin
As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit. -- Luis von Ahn
Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change. -- John P. Kotter
One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible. -- Gail Carriger
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. -- Edmund Beecher Wilson
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? -- Philip Roth
Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning. -- Paul Kurtz
Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature. -- Peter J. Carroll
A Large-Scale Revolution can not happen without a higher-awareness to seek Personal Growth on an individual level. -- Matthew Donnelly
The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment. -- Jamais Cascio
Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. -- Claes Oldenburg
If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy. -- Miyamoto Musashi
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. -- Jeannette Rankin
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions. -- Bill Vaughan
The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects. -- Andy Goldsworthy
I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards. -- Lee Myung-bak
All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale. -- Faisal I of Iraq
Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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In the US itself, there are dozens of well-organized and well-equipped groups, which are capable of causing a large-scale destruction. -- Osama bin Laden
Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality. -- John Buchan
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed. -- Samantha Power
That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along. -- Edwin Lefevre
I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people. -- Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change. -- Jeff Goodell
Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy. -- Pankaj Mishra
Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [ their home ] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community. -- Joe Biden
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale. -- Franz Bardon
Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.... -- E. F. Schumacher
It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces -- Stephen Hawking
Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes. -- Robert Harris
Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible. -- Diego Rivera
Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence. At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection. -- Masami Saionji
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery. -- Eugene V. Debs
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity. -- Walter Bagehot
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst. -- Bob Black
It was apparent that many of the speeds used in the estimates were too large. The scale guiding wind speeds wasn't in tune with reality. -- Joe Schaefer
A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event. -- Nathaniel Branden
No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide. -- Bertrand Russell
Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these are bloodthirsty times. -- Richard Ramirez
In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project. -- Zaha Hadid
It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its adherents. -- Adolf Hitler
The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India. -- Jean Dreze
We're told another large-scale terrorist attack is inevitable by those people who have committed so many resources to preventing it. They likely know what they're talking about. -- Greg Bear
I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty. -- Jonas Gahr Store
Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population. -- Michel Chossudovsky
Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity. -- Steven Pinker
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible." -- Yuan T. Lee
Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient. -- Fred Hoyle
I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it. -- Donna Shalala
We've offered direct financial support for a range of renewable energy sources, whether it be large-scale solar, whether it be geothermal, whether it be wave power or wind power. -- Denis Napthine
An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money. -- John Maynard Keynes
Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure. -- Cynthia Kauffman
Thank God, I think no one is thinking of unleashing a large-scale conflict with Russia. I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers, -- Vladimir Putin
We are trying to discover where this approach could have the greatest possibility of large-scale impact. We have to choose wisely and see where there is greatest interest and need. -- Ruth Simmons
Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process... -- Tom Ridge
Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES when we say NO to war. -- Mel Duncan
While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well. -- Paul Harris
I am beginning to see a large-scale introduction of various management tools, philosophies and practices in the service sectors and have a high hope that it will become a global trend. -- Masaaki Imai
any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure. -- Corinne Maier
A couple of things for the not-so-diminutive man: avoid any prints that are large scale, because you will look like the print is wearing you, as opposed to you wearing the print. -- Tim Gunn
The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure - than almost any other factor save topography. -- Martin Filler
We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own. -- Barack Obama
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale systems of relevance in environmental and economic sciences -- Ilya Prigogine
Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world's needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security ... [T]he obstacles are primarily political, not technical. -- Mark Z. Jacobson
The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them. -- Bertrand Russell
I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity. -- William McDonough
If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States. -- Norm Phelps
The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived. -- Dennis C. Blair
As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery. -- Judy Biggert
However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes. -- Joe Slovo
The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment. -- Laurent Dubois
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. -- Jim Morrison
I'm constantly telling young people that their voices and stories are important. Making a movie is such a large-scale, intense operation that imagining that you "deserve" to be making it is - well, complex. -- Josephine Decker
Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew. -- Stan Smith
I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining. -- Sylvia Earle
A company that cannot successfully implement the 5S's cannot expect to effectively integrate JIT, re-engineering, or any other large-scale change. Good workplaces develop beginning with the 5S's. Bad workplaces fall apart beginning with the 5S's. -- Hiroyuki Hirano

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