For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. Eric S. Raymond affordcapablecapacity share on social
For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere. Ridley Pearson breakfastdayhave share on social
For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair. Tim Yeo blairconservativeequal Change image and share on social
For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States legally. Juan Williams citizenshipenglishfix share on social
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. Carl Bernstein coarseculturalideal Change image and share on social
For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone. Anthony Fauci anophelesdebaclegenetic Change image and share on social
For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application. Mark Zuckerberg advantageallowapplication share on social
For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect. Madeleine Stowe bristledirectlyenvironment share on social
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian. Agnes Smedley aideventsian Change image and share on social
For the first years of my life, I went to school in Rhodesia. My memory of living in the townships is that they were actually really happy places. Petina Gappah happylifelive Change image and share on social