Compression Quotes

Compression Quote of the day

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

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

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.

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.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge 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.

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.

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.

Time's arrow is the loss of fidelity in compression. A sketch, not a photograph. A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...