Disk Quotes

46 quotes by 41 authors

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another. — Jimmy Cannon
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… — Bruce Schneier
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… — Chuck Palahniuk
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… — Deke Slayton
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… — Eric S. Raymond
The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars,… — Frank Borman
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,… — Henry David Thoreau
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… — Raymond O. Faulkner
Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf. — Sam Ewing
My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design… — Jessica Livingston
My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a… — Jay Roach
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
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… — Hermann Hesse
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… — Lee Kuan Yew
I've got an L3 bulging disk and degenerating disk. It's bulging in two places. Yeah, it's not good. — Retief Goosen
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… — Buffy Sainte-Marie
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… — Percival Lowell
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… — Frederick Lenz
In the game of Frisbee you throw the disk to someone else. The point of Frisbee is perfect communication. The person at the other end… — Frederick Lenz
The first human-to-computer uploads of 2100 will prove that a perfect simulation is the thing being simulated - that a silicon soul doesn't need a… — Frank J. Tipler

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