Quotes about hand-held (16 Quotes)


    A master was explaining the nature of Tao to one of his novices. 'The Tao is embodied in all software regardless of how insignificant,' said the master. 'Is Tao in a hand-held calculator' asked the novice. 'It is,' came the reply. 'Is the Tao in a video game' continued the novice. 'It is even in a video game,' said the master. 'And is the Tao in the DOS for a personal computer' The master coughed and shifted his position slightly. 'The lesson is over for today,' he said.

    There is an increasing risk that Microsoft might atrophy on the PC platform as IBM did on the mainframe platform, while robust growth shifts to hand-held and wireless devices.

    We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.


    I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.



    The converged device market is growing at more than 60 percent a year. This realignment positions the hand-held team to more clearly focus on navigating this fast-paced market while PSG continues to accelerate its trend of profitable growth.

    Where the kids keep coming up to us and greeting us, that wasn't in the script, ... That was just a few of us -- Fernando, an assistant and a cameraman -- walking around with a hand-held camera. That's more documentary and reportage than feature filmmaking.

    Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.


    We initiated coverage and with a buy recommendation quite recently, the other day, on Palm ( PALM Research , Estimates ). The hand-held device market is the hottest area for Christmas along with digital cameras and a few other areas. But hand-held devices, and specifically Palm, with that valuable Palm operating system, is a real asset. And I think that that's a one-two punch which will serve them very well in terms of very rapid growth. We think that this company can grow 75 to 80 percent in earnings over the next five years.

    It was about 330 a.m. and the police knocked on our door and woke us up and wanted us to look and see if anything was missing from our cars. Our cars were unlocked and the only thing that was missing was a hand-held video game.


    I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.

    Although studies on the effectiveness of hands-free cell phones are still inconclusive, most people intuitively understand that hand-held phones are dangerous. You need both hands to control a vehicle. How often have you seen someone who's holding a phone to their ear change lanes without signaling




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