Files Quotes - Page 12

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

Ted Nelson

Mean, Computer, Desktop

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We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions as heavy as the great sacks upon their backs these simple, rough-handed people are the ancestors of our descendants, the fathers and mothers of our children.

Walter Weyl

Mother, Children, Confused

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The streets of New York and some wards of its venerable institutions were packed with people who, despite being entirely forsaken, had episodes of glory that made the career of Alexander the Great seem like a day in the life of a file clerk.

Mark Helprin

New York, Careers, People

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And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

Robert Mueller

September 11, Clerks, Agents

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Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I’ve found the answer in the simple file box.

Twyla Tharp

Simple, Perfect, Answers

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Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Doug Larson

Time, Rough Edges, Nostalgia

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And to you taxpayers out there, let me say this: Make sure you file your tax return on time! And remember that, even though income taxes can be a 'pain in the neck,' the folks at the IRS are regular people just like you, except that they can destroy your life

Dave Barry

Pain, People, Return

Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.114, Crown Archetype

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In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?

Warren Hutcherson

Funny, School, Humor

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Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

Bill Gates

Success, Business, Technology

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In my case, I am improvising with existing sound files. I use an MSP patch that a friend of mine made, and you have to improvise when you use this patch. I don't use a guitar in performance anymore.

Christian Fennesz

Guitar, Sound, Use

Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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Kat picked up a folder labeled Senior. "What are these? Bank records?" She did a double take, looking at Hale. "Did your dad really pay two million dollars to the campaign to elect Ross Perot?" "I..." Hale said, stumbling for words and thumbing through another file. "Wow. I guess my cousin Charlotte isn't really my cousin." "Don't worry," Kat said. "It looks like there might be a kid in Queens who is.

Ally Carter

Senior, Cousin, Queens

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People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize that he is not writing down all my words in a file, which I really appreciate, let me tell you.

Matthew Quick

Writing, People, Appreciate

Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control.

Ronald Reagan

Government, People, Paper

Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.56, Best Books on

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Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects - UFO's. As a consequence of my work on the voluminous air force files and, to a greater extent, of personal investigation of many puzzling cases and interviews with witnesses of good repute, I have long been aware that the subject of UFO's could not be dismissed as mere nonsense.

J. Allen Hynek

Past, Air, Years

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I have found there are real objects under in intelligent control being seen on the ground and in our skies worldwire. The unknowns have varied over the decades from 22 percent in my own civilian files, 30 percent in the University of Colorda Condon Committee scientific studies, to at least 40 percent recently revised found in the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book military investigations. This is not acceptable, no matter who is doing the investigations.

George Fawcett

Military, Real, Book

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The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music industry. The fact is that music is so popular that people are willing to break the law to get it.

Dave Rowntree

Law, People, Goes On

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If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it with the proper commands. Likewise, what enables you to get anything you want from your own personal databanks is the commanding power of asking questions.

Tony Robbins

Motivational, Asking Questions, Data

Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

Stephen King

School, Fire, People

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Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.

Greg Abbott

Secret, Deceit, Daggers

"Sony BMG sued by state of taxes over anti-piracy software" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. November 22, 2005.

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I enjoyed the crew. The best part about 'The X-Files' has been the crew. This crew is an exceptional family and to go to work with a bunch of people that you really like is great. They're all the best of the best and they really try to do the best job they can. I'll miss that

Robert Patrick

Missing You, Jobs, Best Job

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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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Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

Jim Rohn

Filing Cabinet, Ideas, Work Out

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 17, 2015

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And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the Thing in the Cellar. Call it the Blow Lunch Factor. Call it the Loony Tunes File. I think of it as my private dinosaur, huge, slimy, and mindless, stumbling around in the stinking swamp of my subconscious, never finding a tar pit big enough to hold it.

Stephen King

Depression, Dark, Blow

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You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely that they would see a UFO than that they would draw Social Security... It's very important you understand this. Once you understand this, you realize this is not an episode from the X Files, and you're not more likely to see a UFO if you do certain specific things.

William J. Clinton

People, Important, Generations

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- L, did you know we’re reenacting the Salem witch trials in English tomorrow? - Haven’t been memorizing your case file? Do you even look in your backpack anymore? - Did you know my dad is videotaping it? I do. Because I walked in on his lunch date with Mrs. English. - Ewww. - What should we do? - I guess we should start calling her Ms. English? - Not funny, L.

Kami Garcia

Dad, Witch Trials, Lunch

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