Compression Quotes

• As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.

  Steve Buyer

  Technology, Phones, Cells

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• After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.

  Jessica Ennis

  Next Day, Competition, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.

  Satya Nadella

  Couple, Essence, Trying

  "Satya Nadella named Microsoft CEO as Bill Gates steps down as chairman" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2014.

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• Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

  Brian Christian

  Art, Might, Susceptible

  "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, March 1, 2011.

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• No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Littles

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• The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

  John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

  Essence, Mass, Observation

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• Let's get this out in the open once and for all. Here is how I feel about compression... Compression is for kids!!!!

  Bruce Swedien

  Kids, Feels

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• Such compression of large amounts of information into a few exformation-rich macrostates with small quantities of nominal information are not only intelligent: they are very beautiful: yes, even sexy. Seing a jumble of confused data and shreds of rote learning compressed into a concise, clear message can be a real turn-on.

  Tor Nørretranders

  Beautiful, Sexy, Confused

  Tor Nørretranders (1999). “The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size”, Penguin Books

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• Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

  David Mccandless

  Information, Form, Visualizing

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• Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!

  Bill Henson

  Black And White, Littles, Shade

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Power, History

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• Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from Day 1 to be an offline device and to sit on a shelf. An LTFS-formatted LTO-6 tape can store 2.5 TB of uncompressed data and almost 6 TB with compression. That means many data centers could fit their entire data set into a small FedEx box. With LTFS the sending and receiving data centers no longer need to be running the same application to access the data on the tape.

  George Arthur Crump

  Running, Mean, Data

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• Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.

  Terence McKenna

  Hysteria, Trends, Standing Out

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• I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Air, Majesty, Discs

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

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• Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

  Barbara Feldon

  Numbers, Needs, Poetry Is

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Small Numbers, Order

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.129, OUP Oxford

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• When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

  Rachel Holmes

  Writing, Decision, Shapes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.

  Michael Helm

  Want, Steps, Degrees

  Source: therumpus.net

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• This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and Joan Didion. Compression, saying as little as possible, making everything carry much more than is actually said. Conflict. Dialogue as part of an ongoing world, not just voices in a dark room. Never say the obvious. Skip the meet and greet.

  Janet Fitch

  Dark, Voice, People

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• I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.

  Debra Dean

  Writing, Space, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like to compete in a suit that will help me save me time and energy by reducing drag, so I race in Aqua Sphere's Energize Compression Speedsuit. The speedsuit also compresses the core muscles to damp vibration, which lessens muscle fatigue, leaving me fresher for the bike and run.

  Timothy O'Donnell

  Running, Race, Aqua

  "Triathlon Gear". Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com.

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• It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Book, Heart, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Focus, Musical, Important

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• The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.

  John William Draper

  Faith, Science, Discovery

  John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.6, New York, D. Appleton

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• Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by comparison. We've raised the bar and you can't really step back.

  Butch Vig

  Artist, Track, Evil

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