Quotes About Compression

Simplicity does not need to be simple. Instead it should be forged of complexity that has been compressed and synthesized.

I use Bogner amps and custom-designed Schecter guitars with Seymour Duncan Invader pickups. I beef up my tone with a Boss CS- 3 Compression Sustainer. It's kinda like my secret weapon.

Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.

I feel like my game has always been compressed and lowered because I'm taller, more passionate.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

'Game Of Thrones' was too big a canvas for a movie, but 'Dirty White Boys' is like a great old Western: there's so much compression, and it's so pressurized, it demands to be told in one sitting.

Playing a character is like compressing an entire life into a few lines - that isn't an easy task.

Yah-da, yah-da, yah-da, yah-da, yah, carburetor, gear ratio, compression, yah-da-yah, piston, plugs, intake, yah-da-yah, on and on and on. That is the romantic face of the classic mode. Dull, awkward and ugly. Few romantics get beyond that point.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

compose memoranda with brevity and limit their length to one page or less. "It is slothful not to compress your thoughts," he said.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space

Every writer has compressed time and procedure, and used clarifying dialogue. That's not a scandal: it's a legitimate dramatic technique.

He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He challenged it. You against me? Dream on, pal. He built borders for it. Then walls. He built walls and forced the pain behind them and then he moved the walls inward, compressing the pain, crushing it, boxing it in, limiting it, beating it.

Misfortune is needed to bring light to the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental facilities to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced - from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

Mac DSP EQ and Compression, which

Bob Clearmountain's Mix This! Studio Equipment List Dynamic processing: UREI 1178 Stereo Compressor—Fantastic, but old and cranky; difficult to recall. Focusrite Red 3 Stereo Compressor—Sounds and looks good but noisy and hard to recall; could use control markings. UREI LA-3A Compressor—Classic and transparent on vocals; modified for low noise. Empirical Labs

SSL FXG384 Outboard Stereo Compressor—Same as in the G-Series Console; great for piano or submixed drums. Avalon AD2044 Stereo Compressor—Great on bass and guitars; difficult to recall. BSS DPR-901 Dynamic Equalizer—For vocals, it's like cheating! DBX 902 De-Esser—Quite handy, but not for lead vocals. Drawmer DS-201 Dual Gate—Great problem-solvers.

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

Time is relative, said Heraclitus a long time ago, and distance a function of velocity. Since the ultimate goal of transport technology is the annihilation of space, the compression of all Being into one pure point, it follows that six-packs help. Speed is the ultimate drug and rockets run on alcohol.

A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.

Do files get embarrassed when they're unzipped?

Every film is faced with the enemy of time. Only so much story can fit into the 90-150 minutes of time that moviegoers are willing to stay in their seats. Naturally, compression is necessary. So are the exclusion and amalgamation of characters so that the viewer does not become bewildered.

Something inside me squeezes up tight like a sponge that is being wrung out