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.Charles Petzold
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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.
Irvine Welsh -
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
Carlisle Floyd -
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.
Aaron Levie -
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.
Sam Heughan -
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
Ted Turner -
I do suspect that this world is hell.
Francesca da Rimini
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
Candice Olson -
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.
Kate Jackson -
I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
Pat Conroy -
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.
Pat Brown -
Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
Brown Campbell -
Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett
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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.
L'Wren Scott -
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.
Fabiola Gianotti -
But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
Damien Hirst -
Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.
Ted Naifeh -
When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
Patrick deWitt -
In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
Barry Marshall
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
Ingmar Bergman -
Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.
Adrian Morley -
First, you must have entrepreneurs who fully grasp their customers. They understand their product so well because they themselves are customers. The second thing is having an awesome value proposition.
Craig Sherman -
I think, as athletes, we've been given a platform, and we can use it in a lot of different ways. We can use it for negative. We can use it for positive. We can be indifferent. But if you've been given a platform, I think God is pleased when you share... His truth in love.
Benjamin Watson -
Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
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.
Charles Petzold