Disk Quotes - Page 3

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Technology, Would Be, Four

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I scooted over, patting the bed next to me. "No such luck. And now you get to watch forty straight hours of Easton Heights with me!" He turned on the first disk, shaking his head, then got onto the bed next to me. "Small price to pay for getting to hold your hand." I wasn't cold anymore.

Kiersten White

Hands, Luck, Bed

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Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light. There you go . . . That was easy!

Vera Nazarian

Stars, Moon, Light

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A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

Jimmy Cannon

Hockey, Player, Puck

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Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn't recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting. When he touched Eleanor's hand, he recognized her. He knew.

Rainbow Rowell

Girl, Hands, Way

Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.66, St. Martin's Griffin

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This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dream, Children, Eye

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2014). “The Offshore Pirate: Short Story”, p.3, Harper Collins

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I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

Paul Theroux

Notebook, Reading, Loss

"Fiction in the Age of E-Books". "The Atlantic" Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

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Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.

Steve Wozniak

Technology, Disappointed, Hard

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Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on.

Douglas Rushkoff

Technology, Space, Suits

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Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

Anne Rice

Space, Forests, Digital

Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.6, Ballantine Books

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The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

Chuck Palahniuk

Dollar Bills, Dollars, Way

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.218, W. W. Norton & Company

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks.

J. Edgar Hoover

Flying, Investigation, Ufo

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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

Fran Lebowitz

Funny, Sarcastic, Humor

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.193, Vintage

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The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

Frank Borman

Distance, War, Moon

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Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

Eric S. Raymond

Memories, Men, Errors

Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.23, Addison-Wesley Professional

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As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk.

Deke Slayton

Weather, Feet, Three

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Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

Ella Maillart

Sunshine, Ice, Gliding

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Now clearly this advantage is when the data on tape has been found and just needs to be transferred back. You need to add a minute or so of seek time to find the data. On large transfers, though, tape should outpace most disk systems. From an ingest perspective, LTO-6 and other enterprise tape formats may be unrivaled when compared on a single unit basis.

George Arthur Crump

Data, Perspective, Add

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I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren't for the use of steroids - I'm not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right now I'd probably be a wreck.

Jose Canseco

Believe, Mean, Use

"Canseco: No Qualms About Using Steroids". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2005.

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A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.

John Frankenheimer

Cities, People, Office

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I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.

John Frankenheimer

Mean, Digital Revolution, Numbers

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... All the drivers that started the replace-tape-with-disk movement in the first place - reliability, performance, portability and off-site data movement - are now liabilities in a disk only strategy.

George Arthur Crump

Data, Tape, Reliability

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