Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Pompi

What I am doing is more important than a movie or audio of me doing it. Technology should never be used for technology's sake, but the application of technology to enhance learning, I am all for.

John Hogan

With the improved audio quality , we will really begin to see the demand increase.

Chris Byrne

All of us at NHT are very excited about our new partners, ... The combined influences of dramatic market change and the increasing pallet of new technologies to improve audio products make it necessary for companies like ours to evolve beyond passive loudspeaker design. With the substantial resources Vinci brings to NHT, we are in a great position for growth.

Nohl Rosen

There was a technical issue with our audio feed that we did not expect but it stabilized and the show had a very good start. We are very pleased by the number of listeners that tuned in.

Jim Cooper

This major upgrade has incredible new features for beginner and veteran users alike, including several firsts never before seen in audio workstation software.

Jim Dale

They're seriously thinking of getting in touch of the Guinness Book of Records to recommend an entry in it under 'most voices recorded from one person for an audio book,'

Chuck Taylor

Radio's success has a lot to do with in-car listening, and when you lose that element, you lose a dynamic part of what makes any audio service successful.

Dan Murphy

The XM Passport is a whole new audio format, in the same way that CDs and MP3s are audio formats. You can take a CD from the stereo to the car, or take an MP3 file from the computer to the portable player. With the XM Passport, you can take XM from one product to the next to listen. It goes wherever you go.

Fred Lohmann

This isn't just idle paranoia. The technology companies are sensitive because they remember all too well that when the VCR was introduced, the movie studios sued them. When the digital audio player was introduced, the record companies sued them. And when the MP3 player was introduced, the record companies sued them for that too.

Wendy Kopp

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

Kim Lawrence

What's most troubling to teachers is the speed with which things are moving. We're worried that programs won't be in place and classrooms won't be ready by the time the students come back to school in late August.

Dave Collins

We're going to have a mixed reaction because folks in our classrooms are representative of the population. Some are eager to use new technology and others would rather use pencil and paper.

John Netwal

At first, teachers were concerned that classrooms would be smaller, but that's not going to be the case. Our typical elementary classroom is about 900 square feet, and these rooms will be larger than that. They will be some of the largest in the district.

Shane Davis

We open our classrooms up and they come in and study. These students are the most driven I've ever seen when it comes to this sort of thing.

Wendy Kopp

As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.

Robert Shaw

We did not have much of a break. The teachers, faculty and I all worked to get our offices and classrooms set up before the students returned. I think the community will be proud of our new facility.

Brett Nelson

So far the community response has been great. We just got a large donation from the Audubon Society and we have donation jars in all the classrooms and around the community.

Stephen Hughes

Ninety-nine to 138 students is not an insignificant number. You're looking at three or four classrooms in schools that are already pushing 100 percent capacity.

Chad Adams

We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and what's not. This plan will be completed in March and we'll continue to prepare for a future growth.

Mike Albring

We started a little slow, but then we had a big third quarter. This was a big win for us. I guess we were all hopeful, but we are a little surprised (to be 6-0). We also know there's a lot of season left and we have to complete the second half.

Liane Balaban

I think one of the greatest skills a person can have is to complete a task they start. To take something from beginning, to middle, to end. In life, if you have that skill, I think you can go very far.

Jeremy Shockey

There is no person on this team that deserves it more than Amani Toomer. He's been a complete team player and an outstanding teammate to play with. He made great plays all through the game and really won the game for us.

Mick Leary

Until our investigation is complete there is nothing more I can say.

Neneh Cherry

When I'm singing or on stage, I become complete all of a sudden. I'm whole. I don't think I've really had that in so many other things in my life.

Jim Finn

We remain optimistic that the Department of Justice will conclude that this transaction is not anti-competitive, and that we will complete the transaction in a timely manner.

Mary Landrieu

worth saving, but they are worth every penny of a complete rebuilding effort.

Dave Jones

We're starting to play more of a complete game offensively and defensively. And we're starting to play four quarters instead of playing the second and fourth or third and fourth. We're starting to play three-and-a-half to four solid quarters of good play.

Alan Perlis

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Alan Bennett

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

Steve Jobs

We want to stand at the intersection of computers and humanism

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.

Robin Schneider

(We) are pleased to see them join Dell and H-P in providing free computer recycling for their customers.

Luis von Ahn

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

Cass McCombs

I don't like going to the studio. It just seems too cold. There's no crowd to react to, or share anything with; it's just talking into a microphone that's going into a computer.

Shelly Flood

We want people to know they can drop off their old computers with us for free, rather than just throw them away. We take anything and everything.

Bill Walsh

90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.

Charles Dickens

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

Charles Spurgeon

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.

Charles Spurgeon

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

Alan Rickman

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

Alan Greenspan

Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity. Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.

Alan Greenspan

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

Alan Arkin

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

Al Stewart

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

Al Pacino

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

Alan Paton

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

Jeff Tageant

We started out kind of slow but we finished strong.

Jessie Evans

We've wanted to do it all year. He just hasn't given us a reason to because he hasn't finished plays.

Jeff Carter

We knew what we had to do. And we went out and finished it off.

Nick Anurak

We knew we were working hard so we knew we could do it. We executed and got it done. We did everything perfect and we got nine champs and everyone placed. That was our goal to get everyone to place and we did. We feel good but we feel incomplete because we are not finished yet. We are out to win the state championship and that's what we're striving for.

George Harrison

As with all of our launches, it's always about making sure product is finished and as good as it can be.

Tod Martin

They made runs, they passed to each other, got it off their feet. Everything that we've been practicing they did, and they finished many opportunities very well.

Paul Peterson

They played very well today. They could have finished more, though. They had a lot of opportunities that went wide, high, over and through. But at least the opportunities were there, and that's something we've had trouble with in the past.

Karen Garmon

They had everything going their way, but our kids stayed focused. Instead of fussing at referees, we finished the game.

Rick Riordan

It's useless to lecture a human.

Michael Faraday

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

Os Guinness

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

James Lasdun

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

John McCain

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

Marco Rubio

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

Willa Cather

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

Witold Gombrowicz

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Jim Wilkinson

We're not going to sit here and say that all the plans are perfect.

Richard Hartley

We have to have a plan in place to know what we're going to do in 2006-2007.

Joe Dumars

We have no plans to do anything with Derrick at the moment.

Pankaj Mishra

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

Robert Huber

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

John Barth

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

Walt Whitman

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

Jessalyn Gilsig

I sketch while I'm on set, and it's a way for me to record all of the locations I've been to. I don't keep a diary but a sketchbook.

Marian Seldes

I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.

Big Sean

Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I'm in the middle of something and I can't get it done, I'll jot it down, but I never write a rap out, ever.

Stephen Harper

When we have an election, the government's record will be back on the radar.

Carl Hiaasen

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

Jam Master Jay

With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot.

Edwin Starr

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

Cheech Marin

We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!

Bo Bice

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

Christopher Hitchens

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

Julia Sawalha

I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad; I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.

Larry Page

I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

Shantanu Narayen

We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.