#soles

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#continue #innovation #internet #mobile #more

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#coarse #defending #die #form #head

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#feet #hair #hated #hates #head

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now. ↗

— John Carmack

#end #everybody #high #hype #marketing

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#anything #computer #i #much #name

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#give #god #had #her #least

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence. ↗

— Kent McCord

#instead #most #obsolescence #studies

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning. ↗