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• I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Mp3, Media

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years on his book, have someone buy it for their Kindle for £6.99 and then see it shared with everyone in the world for free.

  Simon Armitage

  Book, Years, People

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• Just don't create a file called '-rf.'

  Larry Wall

  Computer

  Usenet article, 1991.

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• I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

  Dan Farmer

  Writing, Connections, Protection

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• I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

  Edie Falco

  Night, Needs, Going Out

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• My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Father, Hammers, Tools

  Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (2000). “Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Patents, Would Be, May

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• Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

  Hilary Rosen

  Artist, Creating, Mp3

  "MP3 revolution splitting music industry along cyber lines". December 16, 1998, www.cnn.com.

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• Cold Case Files and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker.

  Hal Sparks

  Ideas, Bangs, Details

  "Dear GM..Your Lease is Up" by Hal Sparks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2009.

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• The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

  Howard Staunton

  Moving, Taken, Men

  Howard Staunton (1848). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess”, p.7

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• Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.

  Julius Streicher

  Rome, Church, Murder

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• A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Ideas, Paper, Cleaning

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• It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Average, World

  Mary Augusta Ward (2002). “Marcella”, p.553, Broadview Press

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• No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.

  Grover Norquist

  Betrayal, Party, Winning

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• Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.

  Greg Abbott

  Secret, Deceit, Daggers

  "Sony BMG sued by state of taxes over anti-piracy software" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. November 22, 2005.

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• And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beach, Sunset, Loss

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it with the proper commands. Likewise, what enables you to get anything you want from your own personal databanks is the commanding power of asking questions.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Asking Questions, Data

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music industry. The fact is that music is so popular that people are willing to break the law to get it.

  Dave Rowntree

  Law, People, Goes On

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• Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

  Jim Rohn

  Filing Cabinet, Ideas, Work Out

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 17, 2015

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• Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.

  Charles de Lint

  Mean, Mind, Austin

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• Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Believe, Russia, Phones

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 164), 1975.

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• XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Efficiency, Binary

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• As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people - the underlying value of that which is traditional, of that which is prescriptive.

  Enoch Powell

  Clever, People, Important

  Enoch Powell's Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. November 19, 1968.

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• My soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars Where stands a wingèd sentry All skillful in the wars: There, above noise and danger, Sweet Peace is crowned with smiles, And One born in a manger Commands the beauteous files.

  Henry Vaughan

  Country, Sweet, Stars

  'Peace' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.

  Bel Kaufman

  Art, Children, Reading

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.49, Open Road Media

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