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Quotes About Storage

When I had a side-by-side-style freezer, I kept everything - soup, ground meat, steaks, cooked rice - frozen in flat packs that I filed away vertically like vinyl records.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
I think it's a violation of user privacy to continue storing email addresses if you tell users your service is shutting down. I sign up for a service, and if you're no longer providing that service, why should you keep my information?
~ Cheryl Yeoh
A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
~ Robert Fulghum
There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.
~ Unknown
the fact that two whole jars of bay leaves is really like a lifetime's supply, the fact that I wonder if every household has too many bay leaves, the fact that the number of bay leaves you own can easily get out of hand,
~ Lucy Ellmann
that a lithium ion battery stores 0.54 megajoules of energy per kilogram, while body fat stores 38 megajoules, and kerosene contains 43 megajoules
~ Joel Achenbach
Fat, such as olive oil, can be stored on your body within minutes, without costing the body any caloric price; it is just packed away (unchanged) on your hips and waist. If we biopsied your waist fat and looked at it under an electron microscope, we could actually see where the fat came from. It is stored there as pig fat, dairy fat, and olive oil fat—just as it was in the original food. It goes from your lips right to your hips. Actually
~ Joel Fuhrman
I've often asked myself, how much information can the brain actually hold? There'll probably come a day when you're able to download it; that's what you have to do when the machine's full.
~ Glen Campbell
The Agency was the one subject in his life that could never be exhausted. Central Intelligence. Beryl saw it as the best organized church in the Christian world, a mission to collect and store everything that everyone has ever said and then reduce it to a microdot and call it God.
~ Don DeLillo
en nube con una serie de aplicaciones que permiten a los usuarios almacenar información con seguridad, privacidad y a precios muy bajos. Ninguna autoridad central tiene acceso a la contraseña encriptada del usuario. El servicio elimina los altos costes de los servicios de almacenamiento centralizados; es rapidísimo y paga a los usuarios por alquilar el espacio de disco que les sobra. Es como un Airbnb de la memoria libre de nuestros ordenadores.
~ Don Tapscott
Somehow, even shrouded and entombed in the storage locker, it had worked itself free and into some fraudulent public narrative, a radiance that glowed in the mind of the world.
~ Donna Tartt
when insulin docks into the receptors, the receptors directly affect the glucose transfer proteins. That encourages the transfer proteins to let more glucose into these cells for storage as glycogen or fat. The effect of all this is to reduce blood sugar level and to stock up on energy for times when food is scarce.
~ Unknown
The borderlines of the secrecy world, the distance between what is hidden and the public's right to know, was shifting quickly. 'We live in a time of inexpensive, limitless digital storage and fast internet connections that transcend national boundaries,' the anonymous leaker wrote. 'It doesn't take much to connect the dots: from start to finish, inception to global media distribution, the next revolution will be digitized.
~ Unknown
I personally bought three liters of kerosene two days ago. And now there's just a drop left on the bottom, not enough to stick up a dog's ass. You just can't leave anything in the kitchen anymore.
~ Unknown
I meditated on the passage of time, and how it may be found in both a dry and a wet or gaseous state; how, though lush, it might be dessicated for storage.
~ Unknown
The digital age was dragging older lawyers like the Boones into the world of paperless files and storage, and not a minute too soon... Why destroy so many trees to produce much paper that becomes useless almost as fast as it is filed away?
~ John Grisham
Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
~ John Irving
Your memory is a monster; you forget -it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
~ John Irving
You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them?
~ John Ruskin
A library is not information; it is a means of preserving information. In every case, before memory or information can be stored, someone must decide what must be stored. Someone must choose. Someone must curate.
~ John Scalzi
Hide' isn't a word we like to use," Cassaway said. "'Perform alternative tasks' is the preferred term." "Just not in the storage room," Mbeke said. "That's our alternative tasking place." "I'll just alternatively task behind my work desk, then, shall I," Dahl said. "That's the spirit," Mbeke said. *
~ John Scalzi
The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
~ Barney Ross
Since we have been primed to think of the subconscious as a closet of monsters to be avoided, we tend to fear it. Thus, we avoid the unconscious storage room where the creative solution is hidden.
~ Deborah Sandella