Compression Quotes:

Let's get this out in the open once and for all. Here is how I feel about compression... Compression is for kids!!!!

- Bruce Swedien

topic: Kids, Compression, Feels

No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

- Dwight Yoakam

topic: Littles, Compression

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

- David Mccandless

topic: Information, Form, Compression, Visualizing

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

- Brian Christian

topic: Art, Might, Compression, Conceptual Art

Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

- Barbara Feldon

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Numbers, Needs, Compression

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.

- Steve Buyer

topic: Technology, Phones, Cells, Cell Phone, Compression

After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.

- Jessica Ennis

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Competition, Next, Firsts, Compression

You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.

- Satya Nadella

source: "Satya Nadella named Microsoft CEO as Bill Gates steps down as chairman" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2014.

topic: Couple, Essence, Trying, Compression

The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

topic: Essence, Mass, Observation, Compression

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!

- Bill Henson

source: Source: www.americansuburbx.com

topic: Black And White, Littles, Shade, Compression, Shades Of Grey

In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

topic: War, Power, History, Compression, Direct Approach

Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from Day 1 to be an offline device and to sit on a shelf. An LTFS-formatted LTO-6 tape can store 2.5 TB of uncompressed data and almost 6 TB with compression. That means many data centers could fit their entire data set into a small FedEx box. With LTFS the sending and receiving data centers no longer need to be running the same application to access the data on the tape.

- George Arthur Crump

topic: Running, Mean, Data, Storage, Data Centers

Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Hysteria, Trends, Standing Out, Compression

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

- Marianne Faithfull

topic: Air, Majesty, Discs, Compression

Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.

- John Stuart Mill

source: John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.129, OUP Oxford

topic: Character, Small Numbers, Order, Compression

When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

- Rachel Holmes

topic: Writing, Decision, Shapes, Compression

I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.

- Michael Helm

topic: Want, Steps, Degrees, Compression

This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and Joan Didion. Compression, saying as little as possible, making everything carry much more than is actually said. Conflict. Dialogue as part of an ongoing world, not just voices in a dark room. Never say the obvious. Skip the meet and greet.

- Janet Fitch

topic: Dark, Voice, People, Compression

I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.

- Debra Dean

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Writing, Space, Stories, Exactitude, Compression

I like to compete in a suit that will help me save me time and energy by reducing drag, so I race in Aqua Sphere's Energize Compression Speedsuit. The speedsuit also compresses the core muscles to damp vibration, which lessens muscle fatigue, leaving me fresher for the bike and run.

- Timothy O'Donnell

topic: Running, Race, Aqua, Compression

It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression.

- Jonathan Tropper

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Book, Heart, Character, Compression

I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.

- Alison Hawthorne Deming

topic: Focus, Musical, Important, Compression

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.

- John William Draper

source: John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.6, New York, D. Appleton

topic: Two, Discovery, Narrative, Contending, Compression

Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by comparison. We've raised the bar and you can't really step back.

- Butch Vig

topic: Artist, Track, Evil, Compression

She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear.

- Katie Roiphe

source: Katie Roiphe (2007). “Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939”, p.70, Dial Press

topic: Bird, Atmosphere, Stories, Compression

I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

topic: Dream, Book, Writing, Compression

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Book, Obscurity, Obscure, Murphy, Compression

As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Writing, People, Kind, Flashback, Compression

Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed … Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word.

- Forrest Gander

topic: Reading, Character, Feelings, Compression, Thoughts And Words

The thing I see happening is that there's a real compression between generations. There used to be about 20 years difference (in technology use). Now you talk to 15-year-old kids and their 9-year-old brother or sister is using stuff that they don't understand.

- Paul Saffo

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Brother, Real, Kids, Compression

Richard Christian Matheson is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to the reader's heart.

- Clive Barker

topic: Christian, Heart, Moments, Compression

Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.

- Laura Riding

source: "The Promise of Words". London Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 17, p. 23, September 07, 1995.

topic: Long, Giving, May, Workmanship, Pausing

At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be incredibly dramatic and incredibly agonised - smoking, burning, incredible compression. In the first year we stayed on the ground and went everywhere. But then in order to discover whether this was the whole story, we rented a helicopter. And we began to understand that this is not chaos but a highly modern system that had been abandoned, then at some point went into reversal, then slowly came out of it.

- Rem Koolhaas

source: "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

topic: Order, Years, Cities, Foreground, Compression

What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Illumination, Clouds, Light, Monte Cristo, Compression

Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp turn. Being the empiricist that he is, he moved, to the opposite extreme, and set as a task for two or three years the collectivization of all the peasantry, the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, and the compression of the Five Year Plan into four years.

- Leon Trotsky

source: Source: www.marxists.org

topic: Years, Opposites, Class, Five Year Plans, Compression

Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to pare his wordy sentences: "When someone expends the least amount of motion on a given action, that's grace." The short story, by definition, embodies this notion of grace, because it requires such forceful compression to achieve its effects.

- Catherine Brady

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Advice, Grace, Stories, Compression, Aspiring Writers