70 Portability Quotes
Following is our list of portability quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about portability life insurance.
Famous Portability Quotes
Portability should be the default. — Larry Wall
The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.' — Daniel Ek
Mobile technology makes us ever more mobile, increasingly permitting not just easier movement around a home base but permanent international relocation. — Balaji Srinivasan
Pedestrian accessibility is the key. — Kim Delaney
We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material. — J. C. R. Licklider
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect. — Tim Berners-Lee
Custom adapts itself to expediency. — Tacitus
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket. — Paul Saffo
Technology should be accessible to all, regardless of geography, income, or background. — Jensen Huang
It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus. — Nikola Tesla
What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate — Seymour Papert
Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity. — Chip Kidd
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. — Indian Proverbs
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. — Adam Osborne
Short Portability Quotes
- Books are a uniquely portable magic. — Stephen King
- A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. — Christopher Morley
- My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property. — Charles Dickens
- Portability is for people who cannot write new programs. — Linus Torvalds
- I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back. — Abbie Cornish
- He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings. — William R. Alger
- Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility. — Bob Hope
- Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated. — Tom Peters
- Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook. — Jane Austen
People Writing About Portability
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Larry Wall |
220 | 633 |
 Daniel Ek |
25 | 142 |
 Balaji Srinivasan |
49 | 1 |
 J. C. R. Licklider |
9 | 71 |
 Tim Berners-Lee |
80 | 760 |
 Tacitus |
220 | 1865 |
More Portability Quotes
By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Bitcoin is probably the most portable money in the history of the world. I can download any amount onto a thumb drive and walk across any border without any problems. Or, I could commit to memory a line of code that I can then input into the network and save or spend Bitcoins. — Max Keiser
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. — Robert Smithson
To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go. — Paramahansa Yogananda
I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt. — Adam Savage
My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment. — Eric Stoltz
But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart. — Stephen King
Nintendo DS is not standing still. As a tenth serious competitor decides to make a run at Game Boy, DS raises the bar on portable gaming, before they even get started. — Reggie Fils-Aime
Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM. — Jay Chiat
Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun. — Tom Clancy
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans -- the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum. — Susan Sontag
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a hunger pain happens, that's your bodies way of saying it's too late, you're a fat storing machine now. The key and all trainers know the secret is that you should always take portable snacks with you and try to feed yourself every couple of hours. — Jackie Warner
Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players. — David Ogden Stiers
Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime. — Galen Rowell
Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go. — Richard Stallman
He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue, water bottle, camping roll, a Comfy Panda Pillow Pet (as seen on TV), and a Swiss army knife—pretty much every tool a modern demigod could want. — Rick Riordan
We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics. — David Milne
I use a portable pocket ultrasound device instead of a stethoscope to listen to the heart, and I share it with the patient in real time. 'Look at your valve, look at your heart-muscle strength.' So they're looking at it with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything. — Eric Topol
Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable. — Cate Blanchett
In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and talk about building a new operating system at Microsoft for personal computers. What Bill had to offer was the opportunity to build another operating system, one that was portable. — Dave Cutler
Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved. — Mitt Romney
Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software. — Dennis Ritchie
The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity. — Jeff Cohen
I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio. — Clint Black
While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing. — Paul Theroux
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing. — A. E. Hotchner
Gaming has kind of evolved a bit. More people play on portable devices. Where we might go in the future, we'll see. Customers love games. I'm not interested in being in the console business in what is thought of as traditional gaming. But Apple is a big player today and things in the future will only make that bigger. — Tim Cook
Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see the rabbit and you zoom down and you grab it. That just happens naturally in a size that fits very well with how the human body works. Got to have a large display and it has to be portable. — Russ Wilcox
Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Men have higher body temperatures than women. If your heating goes out in winter, I recommend sleeping next to a man. Men are like portable heaters that snore. — Rita Rudner
Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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