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“Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from Day 1 to be an offline device and to sit on a shelf. An LTFS-formatted LTO-6 tape can store 2.5 TB of uncompressed data and almost 6 TB with compression. That means many data centers could fit their entire data set into a small FedEx box. With LTFS the sending and receiving data centers no longer need to be running the same application to access the data on the tape.”

Needs Firsts Mean Has Beens Running Fit Advantage Boxes Stores Access Data Devices Application Receiving Tape Shelves Storage Compression Offline Data Centers

Author:George Arthur Crump

“Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.”

Ideas Form Left Language Goes On Devices

Author:Ferdinand de Saussure

“I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since 1776, are continuing to move apart, and that existing elements of linguistic dissimilarity between them will intensify as time goes on, notwithstanding the power of the cinema, TV, Time Magazine, and other two-way gluing and fuelling devices.”

Way Two Moving Form Language Tvs Goes On Elements British Magazines Cinema Devices Continuing Two Ways Time Goes On Time Magazine American English

Author:Robert Burchfield

“Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.”

Information Available Devices

Author:Donald A. Norman

“It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.”

World Today Used Stars Imagination Creator Devices World Today

Author:LeVar Burton

“It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.”

Evil Existence Regard Deny Devices Unfortunate Laid Back

Author:Terry Eagleton

“Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.”

Matter Decision Responsibility Authority Devices Committees Referring

Book:How to Run a Meeting

Source: How to Run a Meeting

“In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.”

Effects Devices Convenience

Author:Andrew Coyle Bradley

“I think Apple is a great device company.”

Thinking Company Apples Devices

Author:Jeffrey Bewkes

“Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.”

Ifs Giving Values Reading Reader Devices Mobile

Author:Marco Arment

“By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.”

Moving Purpose Hours Numbers Design Size Grades Devices Fourth Criteria Fourth Grade Moving Parts Happy Hour

Author:Steven Chu

“I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.”

People Thinking World Phones All Time Cells Devices Cell Phone Laptops

Author:Alexis Denisof

“Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet.”

World Real Internet Terrorism Attractive Devices Automobile Cyber Appliances Virtual World

Author:Dorothy E. Denning

“We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.”

Memories Results Failing Evidence Forgotten Digital Devices Our Memories Outsourced Forgotten Things

Author:Joshua Foer

“I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.”

Thinking Giving Sound Walks Couple Give Me Guitar Like Me Shops Devices Racks Pedals

Author:David Gilmour

“Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.”

Passion Vision Focused Devices Batteries

Author:Ken Auletta

“In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we’re more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?”

People Certain Brain Technology Easier Connected Devices Disconnected

Author:Emilio Estevez

“Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.”

Self Lying Evil Destruction Confusion Devices Wrecks Self Destruction Destroyers Eruption Self Destruct

Author:Ray Davies

“We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.”

Needs Book Science Easy Information Materials Devices Substitutes Transmit

Author:J. C. R. Licklider

“We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".”

Made Culture Easy Wealth Information Listening Entertainment Spread Loud Devices Passive Dose Impart Hedonism Dissipation Electronic Devices

Book:Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“Today there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices, but you do have to know a bit about what each device is capable of doing in order to approach it as a developer.”

Knows Today Order Bits Millions Approach Capable Devices Mobile Developers

Author:John Beresford Fowler

“I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?”

Should Hours Half Wonder Millions Quiet Saved Obsession Saving Devices Half Hours Fetish

Author:Mark Feuerstein

“I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.”

Kind Left My Own Saws Dad My Dad Iron Devices Absorbing Maidens Iron Maiden Maiden Names

Author:Dhani Harrison

“The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.”

Want Needs Made Today Walks Phones Just One Devices Mobile Ipods

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

“You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.”

Needs Looks Written Window Notion Accepted Loyalty Brands Apples Devices Software Users Platforms Spectacular Iphone Interfaces Pricing User Interface Billing Brand Loyalty

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

“The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.”

Records Player Devices Efficient Dense Record Players

Author:Frank Zappa

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