Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation.
“ARM processors continue to power the vast majority of mobile devices in high-volume consumer markets, where the need to work at the ES level to optimize designs for performance, low power, and cost is most acute. Through our continuing strong relationship with ARM, we are able to provide models that significantly lower the barriers to adoption, to more quickly experience the benefits of ESL design.”
I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.
On a winter’s day when a person’s spirits may be low and to behold thirty to one-hundred Evening Grosbeaks busily gorging themselves on bird seed and perched in a stand of pines with all of them creating a cacophony of sparrow like chirps, this is real therapy for me. It is an act of contagious optimism. It is at such times I realize that a bird can do more for me than a shrink.
“The main reason for the analysis is that we need to take an in-depth look at how we're going about making our decisions to make sure what we're asking companies to do is useful, feasible and can be completed in a timely manner. We want to make sure what we're requesting is adding value to our overall understanding of the safety, efficacy and optimal use of the product.”
“There's a lot of investment in these kinds of companies these days, so there's a sense of optimism here we haven't seen in five or six years. We have a lot of panel sessions, but often the best ideas are what people think of after two beers at a party or something. It's just a real creative, fertile atmosphere where new ideas come to life.”
“The market's in trouble, it really is. The market hasn't had a big sell off, we haven't had big down days -- we're just steadily and slowly selling off each and every day. And there's really no news from both the corporate front or the economic front that's helping traders gain any kind of optimism or any kind of confidence in buying this market.”
“We are delighted to be recognized by HP for this Achiever's Award. Our partnership with HP helps companies power their ITSM initiatives and optimize the service resolution process with next-generation knowledge management applications. Our success as an HP partner is a direct result of our joint customers' ability to improve the effectiveness of their help desks, reduce support costs, and improve internal customer satisfaction.”
Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation.
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of other planets, or the annihilation of half the world--in short, pretty nearly anything but the facing up to the integral and irredeemable nature of mankind--can bring about utopian situations. It is the old error of the externalization of evil.