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Quotes About Storage

It's as if some bored theatrical costume designer got drunk behind the scenes and raided the storage boxes:
~ Margaret Atwood
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.
~ Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.
~ Sergey Brin
Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.
~ Dave Barry
Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.
~ Steve Wozniak
Master, the paintings, the paintings in the storage rooms! I cried. Forget the paintings. It's too late. Boys, run from here, get out now, save yourselves from the fire. Knocking the attackers back, he shot up the stairwell and called down to me from the uppermost railing. Come, Amadeo, fight them off, believe in your strength, child, fight.
~ Anne Rice
So whose car will you use to train him in?" his mom asked. "One of my others." His mom quirked a brow at that. "Others? How many cars do you own?" "Ummmm…" Ash stroked the side of his face with his fingers. "A lot." "You don't know?" she asked, aghast. "Not really. Most are kept in storage and I have them delivered when I want to drive them.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
the added expense of carbon capture and storage for all the new coal plants expected to be built in all of the world's developing nations could be paid for through a one percent tax on the electricity bills of consumers in developed nations.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
stored inside of them, in frigid clouds of nitrogen, are cell lines representing nearly a thousand species.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
we are increasingly using the Internet as an external hard drive for our memories.
~ Aswath Damodaran
I rather think that archives exist to keep things safe - but not secret.
~ Kevin Young
Google doesn't really forget.
~ Ethan Zuckerman
Open shelving may be fashionable, but a closed cabinet door is the best way to stop grease and dust collecting in the first place.
~ Sheherazade Goldsmith
Chuck away all of those unsightly wire hangers that damage your clothes, and invest in some thicker wooden ones and some padded fabric ones for your more delicate pieces.
~ Dawn O'Porter
It's tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I'll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I'll be like, 'Oh great!'; even though it stresses me out that I don't have enough room to put them, I can't throw them away.
~ Will Ferrell
Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.
~ Rick Smolan
Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots.
~ Nicholas Culpeper
I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.
~ Louise Wilson
Is that what was under the towel this morning?" "Yes." Charles bit back a slightly hysterical laugh. "I usually carry it with me." "But how does it fit into your breeches?" "It collapses for storage.
~ Sally MacKenzie
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
~ Samuel Johnson
Island or cart. One of the best ways to improve nearly any kitchen is to add a small, movable, butcher block island, which gives you extra storage and counter space and can be pushed against the wall when not in use.
~ Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan
few areas were gated off, like the one they were approaching, the area with some of the casts of human bodies. Protected by iron gates, the figures sat mixed in with other finds in an open-air storage facility. Intermingled with fountains, slabs of marble, and endless rows of pots, were the plaster figures that the first archeologists made as they excavated
~ Sara Rosett
Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed.
~ Martin Yan