Personal Digital Archiving Quotes & Sayings

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. "Hero" isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind. — Chuck Palahniuk

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large. — Milton Friedman

Youth knows no remedy for grief but death. — Winifred Holtby

I like a man who can run faster than I can. — Jane Russell

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for. — C.S. Lewis

Much of our media now are so image-rich and content-poor that they just serve to capture the eye, manipulate our emotions, and short-circuit our impulses. The propaganda and advertising industries therefore function increasingly like adult obedience industries. They instruct their audiences in how to feel and what to think, and increasing numbers of people seem to accept and follow the cues without question. — Nancy Snow

In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own. — Aubrey Thomas De Vere

You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words. — Ashton Kutcher

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself. — Saul Perlmutter

I organise jam sessions every month. We have an open session, so everyone knows about it, and we can get as many as 30 people showing up at the house. Somebody will play a tune, and everyone will pick up on it. My best friends are all musicians. — Tess Gerritsen

[...] fundamental PIM problems are surprisingly resistant to technology change. [...] Despite apparent technology improvements, we still forget to deal with vital actionable items. find it hard to judge the value of new information, keep large amounts of infomation of questionable value, and fail to retrieve important information that we have made stringent efforts to organize. — Ofer Bergman

Deed done is well begun. — Dante Alighieri

I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists. — Natalie Imbruglia