“Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.” SecretComputerVersionsConsumersEngagedDeceitHidingTechnologicalFilesCloaksDaggersSony Author:Greg Abbott
“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.” IfsWantMotivationalInformationComputerAskingValuableAccessCommandDataFilesAsking Questions Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.” ThinkingIdeasAgeWealthMistakeCasesEconomyComputerAdvantageFundFilesShrinkingHedge FundFile Sharing Author:Jaron Lanier
“I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. You’ve got research, you’ve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind of carve it into shape” WantFirstsKindDifferentNextProcessFictionShapesComputerPagesResearchNotesWhat You WantBlockFilesNon Fiction Author:Joan Didion
“I like to sit in front of the computer, going through files of music, and recording the final vocals, guitars and what- nots. But the windows are always open and you can hear the crickets, birds, chickens, and even the sound of rain hitting the studio. The farm is a great place to hang out in, learn from and create music.” SoundFrontsComputerBirdRainWindowGuitarFinalsStudiosChickensHanging OutFarmsHittingCricketVocalFilesSound Of Rain Author:Jason Mraz
“Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.” HelpingSecurityProductsComputerWesternDefeatAgencyAlsOccupationAfghanistanConspiracy80sFilesCiaBin LadenSaudisJihadDatabasesMiscalculationsMujahideen Author:Robin Cook
“I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.” PaintingComputerFiles Author:Wade Guyton
“The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)” Has BeensBehindsInternetComputerResearchClimateUniversityMythEastBrokeGlobal WarmingHatsExposedConspiracyUnitsFilesHackersConfidentialAka Author:James Delingpole
“There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.” KnowsHandsThreeFoundStrongPaperComputerToolsTablesGuitarFilesParagraphTypewritersGuitar PlayingFolders Author:Eddie Vedder
“I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks" or strategies for working with audio files, and then discovered that the same tricks could be applied to video files, or really, any type of data. Previously I made many different kinds of music. I did some work as a composer of film scores. In that role, my task was to create audio to match and deepen the visual. In my work now, the role is often reversed: I have to create images to match and deepen the audio.” IfsKindMadeDifferentFilmRolesTypeComputerMusicianTasksStrategyTricksVideoDataVisualsScoreComposerDifferent KindsFilesAudioDifferent Kinds Of MusicFilm Scores Author:Kurt Ralske
“I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.” IdeasPiecesComputerFilesScaffolding Author:Alain de Botton
“A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB CHERUB agents are aged between 10 and 17. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail.” KnowsWorldChildrenMadeBookRealHomeMightRunningKidsHouseRoomsInformationComputerAdultsPoliceStrangerCriminalsTerroristAgentsAddressesFlatsCopiesJailReal WorldMatesStolenFilesRadarSlippingUndercoverCherubsAddress Books Author:Robert Muchamore
“I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.” WayMeanSoundComputerStartingPlanningVampireOne WayTitlesPhrasesWitchFiles Book:A Discovery of Witches: A Novel Source: A Discovery of Witches: A Novel