Query Quotes

“When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the standards of others. Empathy and connectedness, however, might bridge the gap, by stirring our consciousness of the sensitive queries and by assessing the intricate framework of our surroundings with their countless, prickly nitty-gritties. ("Absence of Desire")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems..."
"Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

“In an era of increasing violence, it is smart to query what has changed in the human environment to cause this.”
― Steven Magee

“You can't go through the looking-glass without getting cut. You know that now, don't you?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We're sorry, but no... and then more beautiful things. It's a shit sandwich with branston pickle and melted gouda.

I read it out loud to the kids. I stick it to the fridge with the others. Some writers do that because it turns their crank to have a Wall of Publishers Who Passed And Will Someday Regret It. I don't. Each one is, really and truly, a gift. We look at them and the boys and I talk about rejection, all kinds of it. Creative, karmic, romantic. Nothing works out until something does.”
― Kate Inglis

“When people query whether Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) is real or not, my answer is always: Sweden has recognized the condition for a decade and has approximately 300,000 EHS people.”
― Steven Magee

“You go on living life, as if, everything is real, as everything is going into your mind, but you will never hold on for a moment, to notice, how everything filled into your mind? You were born with it, or is it acquired?”
― Roshan Sharma

“I have to query the competence of the medical profession in the areas of mental illness and chronic fatigue.”
― Steven Magee

“People would be wise to query what is driving professional astronomers to willfully damage their workers health.”
― Steven Magee

“How can I live like this?”
― Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy

“Query government spending.”
― Steven Magee

“Ask direct questions.”
― Steven Magee

“When President Obama is photographed standing in the middle of a field of dead solar modules and he is telling the world how wonderful it is, you have to query his competence!”
― Steven Magee

“History says that humans sleeping in moonlight turn into lunatics. Today that does not happen and one has to query why?”
― Steven Magee

“Is Expedia actually fully refundable?
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― Louis73005

“If your query returns a small number of rows but filters inefficiently, the database might still have to scan a large portion of the table and sort all those matching rows, which involves temporary memory, CPU, and often some significant amount of disk I/O - especially without an index on the field you're ordering by. Keep this in mind when considering whether to sort the results of your query using .orderBy() or .orderByDesc(), and be sure never to do so either willily, or nillily.”
― Tim Woodruff, ServiceNow Development Handbook - 4th Edition: A compendium of ServiceNow "NOW" platform development and architecture pro-tips, guidelines, and best practices