Quotes About Storage

It doesn't like or dislike. It just functions. It's like a lesson in ballistics. It has a trajectory we decide for it. It follows through. It targets itself, homes itself, and cuts off. It's only copper wire, storage batteries, and electricity.

This leaves a big question unanswered. Is it ever appropriate to store an optional in an instance field? Often it's a "bad smell": it suggests that perhaps you should have a subclass containing the optional fields. But sometimes it may be justified.

Our minds may be like some computers that can have a lifetime of wrong information stored in them.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

Mein Gedächtnis funktioniert wie ein Spinnennetz. Die unwichtigen Dinge - wie etwa den Wind - läßt es durch, aber die gefangenen Fliegen bleiben hängen und werden so lange gelagert, bis die Spinne Verstand sie benötigt und tilgt" (S. 398).

Cuanto más expreses, menos tendrás para almacenar. Mientras que la postergación cierra las puertas de evacuación, la prudencia exagerada apenas las abre.

IOS can send the messages to anyone currently logged in to the device. It can also store the message so that a user can later look at the messages. The next few pages examine both topics.

There is a certain timelessness to closets.

In psychology we have a name for the automatic scripts our brains piece together when we repeatedly do the same thing in the same way: procedural memory. It's such an important repository of information that only the most frequently repeated patterns get stored like this.

memory does not store a feature-length film of our experience but instead stores an idiosyncratic synopsis

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

The intuitive principle here is that we cannot be justified in owning what we do not need to use or plan to use. One does not earn money simply to store it away where it will be protected from all possible future use.

Human memories were organized in the hippocampus region, but recent research suggested the information was only stored there on a short-term basis. Later, the hippocampus recoded these memories as electrical patterns across billions of synapses and distributed them for long-term storage over the entire cerebral cortex.

A union mount is a mount that allows several filesystems to be mounted at one time but appear to be one filesystem. The union mount overlays the filesystems on top of one another so that the resulting filesystem may contain files and subdirectories from any or all of the underlying filesystems.

x. IT WAS EIGHT-THIRTY IN the morning by the time I got to storage, with a sore jaw from grinding

Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.

If one idea in particular seems attractive, and you feel you could do something with it, then you toss it around, play tricks with it, work it up, tone it down, and gradually get it into shape. Then, of course, you have to start writing it. That's not nearly such fun–it becomes hard work. Alternatively, you can tuck it carefully away, in storage, for perhaps using in a year or two years' time.

Until the last minute I keep everything here," he tapped his forehead.

Anyone know how USB drives work?

videotape recording facilities

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.

I have a passion for luggage - trunks and so on. I have a collection of them, but I can never resist buying another piece.

Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down. I have bits and pieces all over my hard drive.