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Quotes About Usage

'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels.
~ Charles Kennedy
We often say if you have traction, lead with traction. Talk about specific customers, usage numbers, revenue metrics - anything like that that really is clearly explicit and factual. Get that out in front early.
~ Dave McClure
Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.
~ Alexander Haig
If you already have some amount of significant traction with customers, either in usage or in revenue, you should very quickly try and get that clearly out.
~ Dave McClure
Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.
~ Dustin Moskovitz
'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
~ Mal Peet
I think is very important that Formula E can apply its technology to everyday cars and everyday usage just as F1 is sort of a testing formula for improvement in road cars.
~ Albert II, Prince of Monaco
I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.
~ Joe Dante
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.
~ Edward M. Lerner
Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we're seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns.
~ Trip Adler
Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.
~ Lionel Shriver
Smartphone usage is on the rise and mobile data is getting cheaper. People are watching a lot of content on their smartphones. So, digital has a bright future in India.
~ Bhushan Kumar
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
~ Peter Diamandis
NSS strongly supports the usage of space to provide benefits to people living on the Earth. The Iridium satellites enable first responders to communicate rapidly during an emergency anywhere in the world.
~ Bruce Pittman
Mobile usage is going up; mobile conversion is not.
~ Harper Reed
Who knows more about the usage of personal data than Cambridge Analytica?
~ Brittany Kaiser
If the goal is to reduce gun deaths and ensure safe, legal firearm usage, activists on both sides should stop fearing data and start embracing it.
~ Leana S. Wen
We've never much liked the idea of charging a participation tax, a phrase we coined to represent what it feels like when a software company charges you more money for each additional user. Participation taxes discourage usage across a company.
~ Jason Fried
Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for programs that benefit highway users.
~ Cynthia Lummis
If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.
~ David Ulevitch
The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.
~ Li Yuanchao
The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.
~ Deborah Tannen
I'm not actually perishing, but I do feel like I die a little every time someone uses 'literally' to mean 'really.'
~ Faith Salie
I think that 'The Sopranos' uses music incredibly well.
~ Alexandra Patsavas