Floppy Disks Quotes

• Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.

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  Mark Helprin

  Use   Pages   Rich  

  "Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto". Book by Mark Helprin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2009.

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• My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design a modem interface; it was that, when the time came and I had to get one done, I would design my own, fresh, without knowing how other people do it. That was another thing that made me very good. All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, and (b) not having done it before, ever. Every single thing that we came out with that was really great, I'd never once done that thing in my life.

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  Jessica Livingston

  Skills   Apples   Knowing  

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• I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.

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  John Frankenheimer

  Mean   Digital Revolution   Numbers  

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• Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

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  Sam Ewing

  Book   Computer   Shelves  

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• With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

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  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Technology   Would Be   Four  

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