Disk Quotes

• I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.

  Steven Wright

  Mind, Madness, Lost

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• Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time, and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to.

  Bruce Schneier

  Night, Damage Is Done, Data

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• The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Mind

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• The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.

  Alexander Calder

  Clouds, Air, Circles

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

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• Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.

  John McAfee

  Roots, Use, Limits

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• Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.

  Mark Helprin

  Use, Pages, Rich

  "Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto". Book by Mark Helprin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2009.

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• This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Thinking, Space

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.226, Penguin

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• Adding hardware to any computer is hard. The reality is, you're sticking in disks, trying to run installers. We do a very sophisticated installation and de-install but it's invisible to the user and happens almost instantaneously.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Running, Reality, Trying

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• Let Ra grant to me a view of the Disk (the Sun), and a sight of Ah (the Moon) unfailingly each day. Let my Ba-soul come forth to walk about hither and thither and whithersoever it pleaseth.

  Raymond O. Faulkner

  Moon, Sight, Views

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• The radio voice, you're in the studio, there's nobody around, and you're using your personality and enunciation skills to get the message across. At the stadium, there are vendors, there are people, the fans talking to each other. It's very difficult. If you were to speak as a radio disk jockey, no one would ever understand what you're saying.

  Charlie Brotman

  Talking, Skills, Voice

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Tape allows for a clean sweep of data that simply doesn't need to be on any form of disk but still needs to be kept. The cost and capacity of tape makes these 'just in case' copies very affordable.

  George Arthur Crump

  Data, Needs, Tape

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• Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.

  Robert Harris

  Tape, Stores, Scales

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• Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Add, Analogies

  The Straits Times, April 22, 2007.

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• I've got an L3 bulging disk and degenerating disk. It's bulging in two places. Yeah, it's not good.

  Retief Goosen

  Two, Yeah

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• The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Phones, Hands, House

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• There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void.

  Percival Lowell

  Thoughtful, Sight, Sky

  Percival Lowell (1908). “Mars as the abode of life”

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• When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured.

  Hermann Hesse

  Struggle, Cutting, Years

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• The steady state of disks is full.

  Ken Thompson

  Humorous, States, Steady

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• Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.

  James Montgomery

  Flower, Eye, Light

  James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir”, p.162

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• Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.

  Scott Aukerman

  Cds, Records, Firsts

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• There's two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they're two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front of 450 people and was a real professional show where people did their best stuff. So to some people that's going to be their favorite disk.

  B. J. Porter

  Real, Two, San Francisco

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.

  Yukio Mishima

  Flesh, Sun, Blades

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Runaway Horses”, Vintage

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• By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your ways though I am--would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them. Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Mistake, Sunset

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• The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.

  Lauren Oliver

  Moving, Grind, Hours

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• I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order... and place between each of these couples a moistened disk. I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.

  Alessandro Volta

  Couple, Zinc, Order

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