speck

The speck of dust that it is compared to the depths of the universe.

I'll be lucky to have even a speck of that kind of mastery in my life.

This reminds me of 1984, where Winston placed a speck of dust on the corner of his diary.

That the entire planet - to the universe - is no more than a speck of sand is to the entire Earth.

I hate these in depth "Here are the 50 reasons that Detroit is bankrupt ..." that try to parse every speck of dust on the city payroll.

You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Otherwise..." [He glances down at his lapel and flicks away an imaginary speck of dust before looking back at Snowden and shrugging.

Whatever tiny speck of EPO that was already in the sample was enough to keep the red cell factories humming.

Until they are, using a block of metal in a vault that has lost about half a speck of dust worth of matter in two hundred years is more exact.

Now, spy cameras can already be annoyingly tiny, but I don't think we're headed for cameras on a speck of dust or some such.

That flag catches four specific instances of undefined behavior, a tiny speck in a sea of all possible ways that undefined behavior can be invoked.

Human beings aren't anything more than a bunch of monkeys scampering around on some infinitesimally tiny little speck in the universe.

Eliezer has the thought experiment where he asks you to compare the disutility of one person being tortured vs a million people suffering some trivial inconvenience like having a dust speck in their eyes.

AWS cleverly designed a very informative status dashboard: green means "things might work", green with a little speck on it means "nothing is working, the entire datacenter is down".Effectively, this is exactly how it is.