Wired Quotations

You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.

Hardcore wrestling like CZW is just nonsense. There's no story there. You've got guys jumping off of houses onto barb wired tables, and that's it. They don't know how to work. CZW is trash.

I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.

The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.

I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.

I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.

I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.

To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape. This helps us to recognize prey and predators.

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

I wanted to do something as an extension of my passion for music. My aim for the STREET by 50 On-Ear Wired Headphone range is to present music as it's meant to be heard, in studio-mastered sound.

I can't get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I - in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade.

It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.

The person I talked to didn't believe me when I told her I was getting the wrong bill. She kept telling me that the duplex may be wired wrong.

We are seeing a surge in wireless network infrastructure in places where it is not convenient and would be very expensive to run a wired network.

Working with Intel, Nokia, RIM and others, we are unifying a triad: bringing together wired and wireless networks, voice and data offerings, and industry support for Cisco and partner offerings.

Working together with a variety of Intel-verified consumer electronics devices, online services and software including movies, music, photos and games, VIIV technology will help users in a new era of entertainment choices, which will be easy to use with the provided remote control and will be powered by a suite of Intel technologies, including a dual-core processor, chipset, platform software and wired networking capabilities

We're fortunate that we had family to help us evacuate. If not for them, we'd probably be in a shelter somewhere with all those other people. My father wired us money from Maine and Robert's grandparents and parents also wired us money for the trip. Everybody in the family wanted us to leave Gulfport.

Versatile was able to achieve revenue growth during that period by concentrating on our core goal of providing mobile solutions that operate in a wired or wireless environment, ... This was especially meaningful as the last few years in the technology sector have been particularly difficult. Our growth is a testament to the commitment of our employees in pursuit of our vision.

We've wired it so we can have a computer lab in here as well as a library. We are beginning to compile a library now. Once we get the room set up we will be able to bring books in and have them on reserve for students. Ultimately we hope to have a library. We will have a full service institution down here.

We tried DSL and those kinds of newer technologies, and they were just not as stable as I need them to be. Fixed wireless also takes away a lot of problems you have in the wired world, where it can take six weeks to put in a frame-relay circuit.

We've taken a wall out of one room because the class was too small and we just didn't have enough space. We've brought in all of the furniture that's here. We've just received some new furniture not too long ago. We've had things painted. We've also wired the entire building for Internet access.

We needed an infrastructure to support voice, video and data services throughout the entire airport, both wired and wireless.

Most organizations have spent millions to protect their physical locations and wired networks, but if you're not securing the airwaves, you're leaving the back door wide open for hackers. Wireless networks bleed across physical boundaries and can render internal networks vulnerable to attack. In our seminar series, we will share the secrets of hacking and provide businesses with the information they need to make smart decisions about how their organization will address the growing risks associated with wireless networking.

Mobility is becoming a big factor for businesses. The WLAN will eventually replace the LAN switch entirely, resulting in a much larger network. The mobile edge of the network is much wider than the wired edge.

Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.

Network intrusions continue to plague IT managers, making automated security critical to availability and cost-effective management of a network. By reducing the complexity of network management and providing an effective way to identify and contain wired or wireless intruders, we're providing a cost effective way to manage and secure Alcatel and multi-vendor enterprise networks.

My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble.

I don't think that normal, healthy people are wired to understand this kind of reprehensible conduct.

He was always on the edge, pushing the envelope. He was wired all the time.

He has to be one of the top five of the best guys we've ever had in our franchise, an absolute class young man. The fact that he played with his jaw wired shut is remarkable.

We're now up over 50 percent of the schools (are wired for Internet access), from 3 percent, and over 80 percent of the classrooms, from 14 percent, since 1994.

It is also a reflection of demand. In a county that isn't particularly wired up, there might not be much demand for a county Web site.

Over 20 years ago, even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future...I called that future 'the wired world,'

Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless.

Our 3Com wired and wireless solution delivers all the performance, flexibility and ease of use we need, at a remarkably low total cost of ownership. With ample capacity to support our needs both today and well into the future, we're confident of our ability to prepare proactively to meet our community's ongoing healthcare needs.

Some guys are just wired differently and have a great feel for the game.

Someone pointed him out to me and said, 'That's Mike,' and I said, 'No it's not, that's an offensive tackle,' ... He's a big guy. I expect him to come home and be as wired as anyone.

I tell our customers that their goal should be to get their wired networks as secure as their wireless ones.

I think he is wired 24 hours a day. There's no downtime for Bernie.

Just 20 years ago, 95 percent of our revenues came from wired phone lines. Today, 35 percent comes from voice lines and 65 percent comes from broadband, wireless and Yellow Pages.

The association models specification is a key differentiator from other wireless technologies. By providing a method for first-time product association, the specification helps ensure a secure connection between products from any vendor that complies with the Certified Wireless USB certification requirements. Certified Wireless USB supports the same ease-of-use and plug-and-play features consumers love and know from wired USB.

Wilmer is wired into our audience. His humor, style and approachable personality make this a great fit for MTV,

The problem is wired broadband will always be cheaper and faster than wireless.

We are delighted that the Piedmont Triad proposal was selected for this grant. The WIRED grant gives us both the financial and technical resources to develop an integrated strategy to restore the Piedmont Triad's global economic competitiveness.

Xircom's strengths in small-form-factor design combined with our silicon expertise will allow us to provide customers with new and innovative solutions for linking mobile computing devices to corporate wired and wireless networks.

We were wired up to play. You hate to say it's payback, but they're where we want to be. We want to catch them. ... It was like a playoff game tonight for us.

We seemed to be wired so tightly in the first quarter. I think with all the subplots that were going on, I don't think we could think straight. Them jumping up on us a little bit actually slapped us a little bit and gave us a chance to catch our breath and get our feet back on the ground. We just played smarter after the first quarter.

You look at countries like Italy and Spain, which both have low (Internet user) numbers, but Italy could actually be more wired than France,

Every teen retailer has cynical shirts because it's a generation whose values are almost completely cynical. They're so clued into marketing and the wired world that they look at things with a more jaundiced eye than their parents.

During the past several years, the television business is being transformed by technology as digital media and broadband distribution make possible the reception of moving images other than (in) the wired box in your living room. Video games allow people to talk to one another. It's an extension of old-fashioned storytelling.

I've raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I've observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With them growing up, but partially how they were wired at birth.

I've played enough where I don't get caught up in the emotion. It's nice taking the field with the World Series champs and lets you know what an accomplishment these guys had last year, but I definitely think that opening day in Chicago will be the real emotional hurdle. It will be one of those things you're really wired up for.

San Jacinto is an aging campus. Having a classroom wired with a TV or a projector ---- like most higher education (campuses) do today ---- wasn't (the norm) in the first and second stages of development at San Jacinto.

Any sound that is sustained that we can't explain away is alarming to us. Hearing is our front-line defense for telling us when we are in danger. We're wired up that way, like an animal would be.

As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.

This is precisely what makes these stem cells so interesting from a therapeutic perspective. They are wired so they can become almost any part of the body. We've uncovered a key part of the wiring diagram for these cells and can now see how this is accomplished.

They?re pretty much wired into these kids? heads.

There's an old saw in the business: If you're not conflicted, you're not wired enough.

It's so extensively wired that you can do anything you want. You can select any space including the conference room, lounge and offices to be used with any control room. With the press of a button, automatically all of your queue mixes are instantly designated to the space you're going to work in.

Every one of our 10,000 taste buds is wired for sugar. But we aren't born liking salt - we develop a taste for it at about 6 months.

They are wired so they can become almost any part of the body. We've uncovered a key part of the wiring diagram for these cells and can now see how this is accomplished.

They are tractor tubes that we cut, filled with sand and wired up the ends. Hopefully that will help.

If you're kind of wired up and anxious and you need to get to bed and you're hungry, carbohydrates can have a relaxing effect, especially sweets.

I have the best weight-loss plan of anybody in the world - get your mouth wired shut,

By investing into Marcus Cable, I will finally have some wires for my wired world.

Cameras, I believe, are moving from the wired world towards the wireless world. It's not going to happen this year but, starting next year, you're going to definitely see some more cameras coming that incorporate wireless-transfer capabilities.

These practices have been developed through the decades. The iconic photograph of the Abu Ghraib detainee, hooded and wired and standing on a small box, depicts a position known to intelligence officials as 'The Vietnam.'

Andrew's lawyer contacted Andrew's accountant, it was clarified and a full payment was wired immediately,

We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.