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Quotes About Wired

I'm not super-polite or civil - I try to be civil, but I'm not into Seattle's niceties, and I'm not hugely wired into Seattle's natural beauty.
~ David Shields
I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
I wanted to do something as an extension of my passion for music. My aim for the STREET by 50 On-Ear Wired Headphone range is to present music as it's meant to be heard, in studio-mastered sound.
~ Curtis Jackson
I left 'Wired' before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn't experience that transition.
~ John Battelle
Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless.
~ Travis Bradberry
People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
~ Ramez Naam
I would probably struggle a bit more with a really dramatic serious-intent story. You have to really bring it. My brain is so comically wired, though.
~ Justin Roiland
I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine.
~ John Battelle
I can't get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I - in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade.
~ Nick Nolte
I co-founded 'bOING bOING' magazine and the 'Boing Boing Blog' and was an editor at 'Wired' from 1993-1998.
~ Mark Frauenfelder
I'm allergic to cats, so I'm psychologically wired to associating kittens with itchy eyes and popping Claritin.
~ Ross Butler
Wired gave 'Duke Nukem Forever' the first Vaporware Award, and then the next year it won No. 1 vaporware again, and then again and again until Wired decided, you know what? 'Duke Nukem' is just going to get the lifetime achievement award for vaporware.
~ Randy Pitchford
A lot of these coaches, they're almost like military leaders, and the media is the enemy. Football coaches are just wired tight.
~ Colin Cowherd
It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.
~ Vint Cerf
WattUp is one of those rare breakthroughs that recognizes that the so-called 'battery' problem in wireless devices is solved with a charging solution that is transparent to the user. The cell phone with a dead battery can become a relic of the past. The days of wired, mat-based and proximity charging are over.
~ Martin Cooper
Do you think that we're wired this way? With the devil inside? Yeah, in the same way we're wired for God. But not to the same extent.
~ Anne Lamott
Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.
~ Nick Cave
His words made me wonder what else might be prewired in my brain. Did we have multiple personalities all wired up and ready to use, just as "emotional vision" was always latent in my mind, waiting for activation?
~ John Elder Robison
The black Russian wolf-the oborotni-seemed wired together out of broomsticks, but the grip that matched Keith's was as unyielding as the ambition in his eyes.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Without a nap break, the homeostatic pressure continues building until the end of the day, growing in intensity, so that a child becomes overtired, wired, and unable to stop the explosion. The result is an intense bedtime battle with a cranky, overtired child who won't fall asleep no matter how tired he is.
~ Elizabeth Pantley
The last time I was unemployed was 1989, and I've seen the research on retired people and how they feel about it. I'm definitely wired in a way that you wouldn't predict it would go wonderfully.
~ Sam Hinkie
Fear-based messaging will never lead to a long-term effective strategy because it is not the way we are wired.
~ Sanjay Gupta
We were bleeding information from the nose and ears, though dazed and disoriented was not how I experienced it. Most of the time, I felt like I was three years old, high on chocolate cake and social networks, constantly wired, ingesting information and news about information, books and books about books, data and metadata—I was, in other words, overstimulated yet gluttonous for more.
~ Marilyn Johnson
Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.
~ John Cusack