Charles Petzold Quotes
Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.
Quotes to Explore
-
Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
-
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
-
The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
-
It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
-
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
-
I do suspect that this world is hell.
-
Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
-
In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
-
As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.
-
Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
-
I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
-
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
-
All of my high school issues are resolved!
-
Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
-
Habit is a great deadener.
-
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
-
I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
-
Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
-
Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.
-
When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.
-
It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.
-
No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.
-
You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.
-
Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.
