Bandwidth Quotes

• Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.

  Clifford Stoll

  Science, Power, Thinking

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• We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.

  Bill Gates

  Infinite, Decades

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• Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Tape, Wagons, Geek

  "Computer Networks". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1981.

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• The introduction of optical fiber systemswill revolutionize the communications network. The lowtransmission loss and the large bandwidth capability of the fibersystems allow signals to be transmitted for establishingcommunications contacts over large distances with few or noprovisions of intermediate amplification.

  Charles K. Kao

  Distance, Communication, Loss

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• Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."

  Bill Gates

  Long, Intellectual, Microsoft

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• A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Simple, People

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.184, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Space, Records, Anything And Everything

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• Most people didnt have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever.

  Todd Rundgren

  Song, Ideas, People

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• The content people have no clue. I mean, no clue. The cost of bandwidth is going down to nothing. And the size of hard drives is getting so big, and they're so cheap, that pretty soon you'll have every song you own on one hard drive. The content distribution industry is going to evaporate.

  Bram Cohen

  Song, Mean, People

  "The BitTorrent Effect" by Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. January 01, 2005.

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• One of the things you learn as president is, as powerful as this office is, you have limited bandwidth. And the time goes by really quickly and you're constantly making choices, and there are pressures on you from all different directions - pressures on your attention, not just pressures from different constituencies. And so you have to be pretty focused about where can you have the biggest, quickest impact.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Impact, Office

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Two, Wish, Would Be

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• Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

  Dan Farmer

  Availability, People, Complaining

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• The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.

  Kumar Mangalam Birla

  Smart, Skills, Guy

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• Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

  George Gilder

  Three, Computer, Programming

  George Gilder (2000). “Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• In the evolution of the [The Hunger Games] movie, Gary [Ross] and I talked a lot about tonal bandwidth and making sure that the look and feel and style and choices of the movie stayed within a certain consistent bandwidth.

  Nina Jacobson

  Games, Choices, Style

  Source: collider.com

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• When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. In the book, it's great when she can push a button and food comes up, as per your order.

  Nina Jacobson

  Book, Reading, Order

  Source: collider.com

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• Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers attributed to him he must have something far more elaborately and non-randomly constructed than the largest brain or the largest computer we know.

  Richard Dawkins

  Brain, Neurons, May

  "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, 2006.

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• I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files.

  Rocky Anderson

  Television, Social, Taxpayers

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• On the Internet, there are an unlimited number of competitors. Anybody with a Flip camera is your competition. What makes it even worse is that YouTube is willing to subsidize the cost of your bandwidth. So anybody can create and distribute for free basically, but the real cost is marketing. And that's always the big cost - how do you stand out and what's the cost of standing out? And there's no limit to that cost.

  Mark Cuban

  Real, Numbers, Competition

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• And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Empathy, Helping

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• If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.

  Larry Page

  Running, Partnership, Results

  "Online Extra: Google's Goal: 'Understand Everything'". Interview with Sergey Brin, www.bloomberg.com. May 3, 2004.

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• But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

  Jon Postel

  Home, People, Planning

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• Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Netflix, Video, Kind

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• For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  People, Anxiety, Telephones

  "I (Robot) Thee Wed" by Daniel H. Wilson, www.slate.com. May 4, 2012.

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• I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.

  Annalee Newitz

  Believe, Data, Want

  "Cyber rights... and wrongs" by Erica Hill, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2003.

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