(61 quotes found)
“On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .”
Charles Dickens
“The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.”
Galileo Galilei
“With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.”
Ray Floyd
“The biotech industry is very tightly clustered.”
Joseph Cortright
“If you plot the distribution of clusters, you discover that almost all of them are on one side of the sky, concentrated in the constellation Sagittarius in the summer sky.”
Carlton Pryor
“Globular clusters are old and give us a limit on the age of the universe. The universe couldn't be younger than the oldest star cluster.”
“The root cause of the intermittent access was an error in the database cluster. Salesforce.com addressed the issue with the database vendor. By Tuesday afternoon, the system was running normally for all users.”
Bruce Francis
“It lends credibility to the entire concept of a clustered file system, multiple disparate servers accessing the same data, which has been fairly esoteric until now, ... It has typically lived in the more technical computing space. This kind of brings it into the mainstream. I expect to actually see an increase in interest now that this stuff has been open sourced. I think you'll see a lot of innovation and innovative uses.”
Chris Wood
“All the stars in a cluster are the same distance away, so you can compare brightness without having to worry about whether a star that appears faint is actually very bright but just far away.”
“Groups feeding the homeless at the Downtown Plaza has had unintended consequences. There are so many folks clustered in downtown - it's becoming a crisis.”
City Manager Russ Blackburn