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Quotes About Files

There's a lot of information on Iran in the files and computer discs captured at the Pakistan hideout of Osama bin Laden.
~ Michael T. Flynn
The Nauru files lifts the secrecy surrounding Australia's hidden detention regime for asylum seekers through vivid reporting and the words of the guards and officials on the island themselves.
~ Katharine Viner
You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your desk are arranged in precise corners. If I had to guess, I would say you are probably a control freak, and that is usually symptomatic of a man who feels powerless to control his own life, so he tries to control every facet of his surroundings.
~ Judith McNaught
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
~ Ralph Nader
We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely another literary genre: the past is autobiographical fiction pretending to be a parliamentary report.
~ Julian Barnes
The office looked the same as it had been the day before. Claire sat down at the desk. She hesitated as she reached out to tap the keyboard. This was a red pill/blue pill moment. Did she really want to know if there were more files? Paul was dead now. What was the point?
~ Karin Slaughter
I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files.
~ Rocky Anderson
I was a caddy once and I lost the golfer's clubs. Plus I don't know how to golf, so I was the worst caddy ever. Then I was a mortgage brokers assistant, so that was just carrying around a lot of files - pretty meaningless, mind-numbing work.
~ Bryan Greenberg
We're just a general-purpose search engine and torrent-tracking system. You can put whatever you want on the Pirate Bay. We don't participate in how the people communicate with each other. We only participate in bringing the possibility to communicate and share files.
~ Peter Sunde
I reset the alarm, let myself out, and went to my car. I dumped the yearbooks and files onto the passenger seat, but didn't drive away. I thought about the gun. Amy might have had second thoughts. She might have decided it was too loud or too smelly or just wasn't fun. Maybe having a gun around the house made her feel less safe, so she got rid of it. There were plenty of innocent reasons her gun was missing, but guesses weren't facts. I
~ Robert Crais
dynamically linked files, which can be plugged together at runtime, are the software components of our architectures.
~ Robert C. Martin
If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies' security teams' files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It's just more efficient.
~ Kevin Mitnick
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
~ Ralph Nader
Reacher] moved the mouse and sent the arrow up toward the icons. He knew they were files. Or file folders. You had to click on them, and in response they would open. He was never sure whether you had to click once or twice. He had seen it done both ways. His usual habit was to click twice. If in doubt, etcetera. Maybe it helped, and it never seemed to hurt. Like shooting someone in the head. A double tap could do no harm.
~ Lee Child
Already on it," he assured her. Pedophiles loved to hide digital files—say, incriminating photos—as attachments to computer games, where the file sizes were already so huge and graphic-rich that it was hard to see the piggyback. Inside stereo speakers was also a favorite spot for stashing thumb drives. In this house, given this crime scene, they couldn't afford to assume anything.
~ Lisa Gardner
She says that in January 1990 when the Berliners saw the smoke coming out of the chimneys they came here to protest. They brought bricks and rocks and built a symbolic wall around the building, to get the Stasi to stop burning the files. She says it is extraordinary that, with all those stones, not one was thrown and that, conversely, not one shot was fired from this building.
~ Anna Funder
The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
~ W. Mark Felt
I've always wanted to play a detective. Always loved detective shows, right back to 'Columbo', 'The Rockford Files', 'Starsky & Hutch'.
~ Ardal O'Hanlon
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
~ Ted Nelson
I examined a lot of CIA declassified UFO files, which are fascinating, because there was a huge UFO craze going on in America. There still is today, but it certainly started in '47. And by the '50s, it was in full force.
~ Annie Jacobsen
Do files get embarrassed when they're unzipped?
~ Anonymous
'Forensic Files' is amazing! I love it! There were marathons happening all the time in college. That show, because it's always on at night, was always better than any scary movie I could put on, because it was 'real.'
~ Cory Michael Smith
It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.
~ Michael Nesmith
Do I get a salary?' inquired Tik-Tok. 'You get your share of the plunder,' answered the Queen. 'Yes,' remarked Files, 'one-half of the plunder goes to Queen Ann, the other half is divided among the officers, and the Private gets the rest.
~ Frank Baum