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  • The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

  • The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.

    Rights   Firsts   Ada  
  • Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended.

    Girl   Laughter   Heart  
    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1969). “Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle”, McGraw-Hill Companies
  • They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and how he "ladored,"he said, the dark aroma of her hair blending with crushed lily stalks, Turkish cigarettes and the lassitude that comes from "lass." "No, no, don't," she said, I must wash, quick-quick, Ada must wash; but for yet another immortal moment they stood embraced in the hushed avenue, enjoying as they had never enjoyed before, the "happy-forever" feeling at the end of never-ending fairy tales.

    Dark   Light   Hair  
  • If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless fun for children of all ages, and they won't mar the furniture.

    Children   Fun   Fire  
  • The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers.

    Home   Careers   Purpose  
  • As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

    Thinking   Ada   Language  
    "Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting". www.perl.com. December 6, 2007.
  • It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

    Ada   Computer   Former  
    "Regarding 10_000_000". Usenet article, 1991.
  • Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

    Soul   Vices   Meals  
    Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.106, Faber & Faber
  • Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.

    Girl   Years   Romance  
    "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 45), 1991.
  • Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.

    Ada   Lines   Should  
  • Even if you have an ADA room, every disability is so different that people need different things. A lot of times they'll put something on the toilet to make it higher, and for someone transferring from their chair that's fine, but I transfer from the floor so it causes more problems.

    Source: abilitymagazine.com
  • Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

    Balance   Trying   Ada  
    Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.414, Faber & Faber
  • When we look at these historical women and what they've gone through, it's shocking to recognize some of our own experiences in theirs. When you look at someone like Ada Lovelace who is the first computer programmer, during her lifetime doctors said that was really sick because she was trying to use a masculine kind of brain that she didn't have. Today, her legacy of being the first programmer is stil disputed.

    Source: www.marieclaire.com
  • Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for Wilde, the folly of humankind and the (romantic) grandeur of the heroic, lone individual (not unlike Wilde himself); for Nabokov, the possibility of a kind of transcendence through a great, prevailing, superior sort of love (especially in Ada, the most self-congratulatory of novels.)

    Believe   Writing   Self  
  • Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.

    Daughter   Heart   House  
    Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.81, Cambridge University Press
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