Incompressible Quotes & Sayings

This is what we see when we look up at Rainier, the beauty, the horror, the awe the unbelievability of size that confirms our own consequence on this earth. We look at the mountain, like god and can imagine nothing larger. Its incompressible life-span reminds us of the fleeting mortality of our own bones. It looms over our lives on clear days and and stay present but hidden through the clouds of winter. Like god it remains everywhere forever. — Bruce Barcott

But I'm pretty on the inside. — Scott Snyder

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.' ... — Peter Greenaway

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. — Harold W. Dodds

Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist. — Charles Caleb Colton

Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. — Markus Zusak

For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death. — Alexander Monro

More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't. — David Lynch

Experience is algorithmically incompressible. — Ted Chiang