Vcr quotes

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.
-- Brian Ferneyhough

#Writing #Symphony #Vcr
Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.
-- David Zinczenko

#Media #Vcr #Synergy
The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.
-- Jack Valenti

#Home #Boston #Vcr
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.
-- Khaled Hosseini

#Book #Vcr #Tape
And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.
-- Niklas Zennstrom

#Vcr #Watches #Watch Movie
Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.
-- Richard Corliss

#Vcr #Magic #Promise
Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux.
-- Bruce Perens

#Vcr #Want #Linux
Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television.
-- Joe Kraus

#Vcr #Important #Use

Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk between the eyes.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
All things are delicately interconnected.
Everything I am is because of my mom.
Iâ€™m on the benevolent side of antisocial. I donâ€™t mind people, but Iâ€™d prefer not to have a lot of them around.
If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all
How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.
Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.