Top 100 Quotes About Delete: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Delete

#1. Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.

#2. Back then, the entire Internet consisted of two slow, boxcar-sized UNIVAC computers about 50 feet apart, connected by a wire. It would take one of these computers an entire day to send an email to the other one, which would immediately delete it, because it was a Viagra ad.

Dave Barry

#3. Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds ... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather." Safe generalizations are quite boring.

Joseph Epstein

#4. But even if you thought they were adequate at the time, when you're collecting data in bulk-you've got it. The data lasts until you delete it; the rules only last until you decide to change them, and change them in secret.

Julian Sanchez

#5. Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

Harper Lee

#6. It's easy to delete the truth when you live behind your own permanent censor.

Katie Kacvinsky

#7. Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

#8. Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - wholeheartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

Steven Pinker

#9. But when I clicked over to my e-mail program, it was just another "great opportunity" spam, this time adding the words "don't delete!" to the subject line. With a sense of perverse satisfaction, I deleted it. It was probably the only act of rebellion I'd get away with all day.

Shanna Swendson

#10. A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content.

David Puttnam

#11. We're angry about this, upset about that, but who has the time to do anything anymore? There are those reports to report on, memos to remember, e-mails to deflect or delete. They bury us like snow.

Mark Slouka

#12. It's so cheap to store all data. It's cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change their behavior because they know anything they say online can be used against them in the future.

Mikko Hypponen

#13. Soon I will sleep, and my brain will begin to delete everything. Tomorrow I will go through it all again.

S.J. Watson

#14. Don't delete it, don't are you an idiot???
Yes or No??
You have done it and now you must get the consequences, like it or not that's a lesson you must learn it.

Deyth Banger

#15. If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

Bill Nye

#16. Delete, delete, delete. No way am I letting their negativity mess me up. I have enough to worry about.

Sharon M. Draper

#17. It's strange how interesting your dreams are, but when someone tries to tell you their dream you're just like "WHATEVER! Why don't you send me an e-mail so I can delete it?"

Jim Gaffigan

#18. I stand for My Vision of all Good Images
in Love and Life.
An image you won't Delete :
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
September 15, 2016
Amen

Petra Hermans

#19. Clearing out your email inbox can make you feel really good - like you're ultra-productive. But unless your job is to delete emails, time spent in your inbox may not be time spent wisely.

David Burkus

#20. The mind can't delete what the heart won't let go of.

Peggy Toney Horton

#21. It took him almost a half hour to write a message of only five lines. It took yet another fifteen minutes to delete whatever might be construed as ambiguity, desperation, or references to a history that he no longer had access to. Finally, he took a deep breath and hit 'send'.

Joakim Zander

#22. More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.

Harlan Coben

#23. Whenever one has time to write, edit, and delete, there is room for performance.

Sherry Turkle

#24. Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.

Abhijit Naskar

#25. There really isn't a way to explain how a person you've seen every day of your life just isn't anymore. Someone just hit delete and she's gone.

Katja Millay

#26. When in doubt, delete it.

Phil Crosby

#27. The lack of a delete button on the internet is a significant issue,

Eric Schmidt

#28. 'They don't know what it's like. Inside. For them it's only fun, even though I tell them it isn't. You see I don't delete. Anything. Ever.

Alan Garner

#29. We don't know those bones but I know what it feels like to know a dead girl. Her text messages are in my phone. I don't look at them but I keep them there. It seems fucked up to delete a dead girl's texts. It seems pointless. She is already gone.

Gabby Bess

#30. Online one day, you log in, and you realise, 'This is not me.' Everything you're posting, you're doing it in the context of everything you've posted before. Let's delete everything, save the stuff that's important, and then you only have to organise the one per cent that's worth keeping.

Evan Spiegel

#31. Maybe I'm too jumpy, too untrusting. The thing is, once something bad happens, there's no way to undo it. There's no erase button on life. I can't just click the delete key and start over.

H.M. Ward

#32. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you've spent years establishing on the world's dominant social network?

Al Franken

#33. I threw away over 1,200 finished pages of my last memoir and broke the delete key on my keyboard changing my mind. If I had any balls at all, I'd make a brooch out of it.

Mary Karr

#34. I come prepared with the white suit and stethoscope,
Listen to your heartbeat, delete beep beep BEEP.
Your insurance is high, but my price is cheap.

Kool Keith

#35. It is definitely much easier to feel that an album is disposable - to dismiss an album or delete the tracks you don't like or to just throw it into shuffle or whatever.

Ed Droste

#36. There's an old folk saying that goes: whenever you delete a sentence from your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and plummets, screaming, to the ground. Where it will likely require medical attention.

Chris Baty

#37. Delete anything that has to do with love, respect, or joy and I'll sign in the dotted line.

Marissa Meyer

#38. So, next time you go to post a comment or an update or share a link, ask yourself: is this going to add to the happiness in the world?

And if the answer's no, then please delete.

There's enough sadness in the world already. You don't need to add to it.

Zoe Sugg

#39. Why?
Why?
Do you follow me and then unfollow me?
Do you add me as a friend and then delete me?

Deyth Banger

#40. Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics.

Robin Sharma

#41. Christ knows all that is true about our story, the parts we own and the parts we would delete, and He invites us to bring them all into the spotlight of His grace.

Sheila Walsh

#42. You know what I think that button [in Kremlin] should have read? It should've read "delete." Y'know, she [Hillary Clinton] is very good at that by the way.

Chris Christie

#43. Sometimes you have to erase the messages, delete the numbers, and move on. You don't have to forget who that person was to you, but you do have to accept that they aren't that person anymore.

Drake

#44. I'm pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if it's become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic I'm interested in.

Rich Sommer

#45. But the human mind has a talent for ignoring what is inconvenient for it to notice. A built-in delete key to soften the blows of regret or guilt.

Toni Jordan

#46. I love you
Delete
If you leave him, I'll leave her
Delete
Can we talk?
Delete
Peter Pan
Delete

Tarryn Fisher

#47. A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#48. I can stand by a tweet. But Comedy Central said they couldn't publicly support me, unless I deleted it. I wasn't about to tell the people who work for me that they didn't have jobs anymore because I wasn't going to delete a stupid tweet.

Anthony Jeselnik

#49. I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'

Elayne Boosler

#50. Today delete it; tomorrow you will need it.

H.M. Flath

#51. If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

Robert Sewell

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Kim Harrison

#53. In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.

Mark Nepo

#54. Accent your positive and delete your negative.

Donna Karan

#55. I use Facebook quite a lot to keep up with my friends, although I had to delete 'Words With Friends' from my phone because it was wasting too much of my time.

Joshua Bell

#56. I scroll through iPhone photos and see that if I delete pictures of myself with a double chin, I will erase all proof of my glorious life.

Helen Ellis

#57. I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly

Jenny Han

#58. To delete our memory to zero! A completely new life! . This is a fantastic idea!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#59. There was no Delete button to help you erase an awkward scene. You couldn't hit Backspace to get rid of all the rubbishy bits. You had to live with the decisions you made.

Victoria Connelly

#60. I have a lot of game apps I need to delete.

Gia Coppola

#61. How will I ever learn to forget
what I can no longer delete?

Angelos Michalopoulos

#62. The power of the delete key.

Buffy Andrews

#63. The mind replays what the heart can't delete.

Yasmin Mogahed

#64. Autocorrect: making Twitter pedants delete and re-tweet since 2007.

Cassandra Page

#65. If I see a phrase that strikes me as ugly, I'll delete it. Or, if I find a way to say something a bit more freshly than it was expressed originally, I'll do it. Ultimately, you want to try to leave behind the best possible paragraph or sentence.

Tim O'Brien

#66. I like things you can touch and things you can keep, because every bit of communication we have is ephemeral in nature. You can just delete an e-mail and it's like it was never there.

Taylor Swift

#67. Mike [Mann], can you delete an e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will do likewise ... Can you also e-mail Gene and get him to do the same? I don't have his e-mail address ... We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.

Phil Jones

#68. I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

Rudyard Kipling

#69. What I know is you can't go back. You can't press delete and re-key your life.

Julie Anne Peters

#70. Deal with email in batches, during limited, fixed times every day Process your inbox to zero at least once a day Constantly create filters, opt-out and delete faster Think before you send Plan filing maintenance once a month

Joost Wouters

#71. Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.

W. Bruce Cameron

#72. Today, Leslie writes at least a thousand words a day on DC Metro orange line trains. Most of them perish behind the delete button.

Leslie Welch

#73. Delete Never Means Delete in the Information Age.

Mike Sutton

#74. When you delete pictures of your ex off your phone, it feels lighter.

Dane Cook

#75. I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and then give an electrical shock to the sender to remind him or her to stop send that kind of message.

Scott Adams

#76. I am not as valuable as the books, I AM the books! They are a part of me I cannot delete or cut off or ignore! I AM CURRENCY! - Nevel Walker

Whitney L. Grady

#77. Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete something if it's bad or if it's really embarrassing.

Evan Spiegel

#78. The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.

Robert McKee

#79. Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false, dangerous.

Andre Maurois

#80. There is no delete button for bigotry.

Tom Brokaw

#81. I wanted to curse the maker for not completing the female cast with a delete slash purge button when it came to men.

Nicole Williams

#82. Hit the delete button every time fear appears.

Wayne Dyer

#83. Hemingway used to write an ending to his novel only to delete it, asserting that it made the story stronger because the reader would always be able to intuit the ghost of that final, incorporeal passage.

Jessica Knoll

#84. You are sure that I would not be well advised to make certain excisions and eliminations? You do not think it would be a good thing to cut, to prune? I might, for example, delete the rather exhaustive excursus into the family life of the early Assyrians?

P.G. Wodehouse

#85. Oh, the power of the delete. It felt fabulous. I wished I could go around deleting like crazy. I'd delete suspicious spots on X-rays and malls at Christmas, car troubles and tragic events in history, the world's and my own.

Deb Caletti

#86. When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that delete button just won't let anything go forward.

Lynda Barry

#87. Delete," he said. "I keep telling you." But I couldn't. Even though I wasn't sure what the point was anymore. No one kept in touch, they just kept up. And then, when they couldn't keep up anymore, they forgot. I

Robyn Schneider

#88. Now she understood how you can copyedit your own life in order to delete the hurtful truth.

Elaine Hussey

#89. So it was doing all this research or going to the archives or doing all these interviews or traveling, and then trying as much as I can to delete all of that research in a later draft so that all the reader cares about is the characters.

Molly Antopol

#90. When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?

John C. Dvorak

#91. I understand Windows as well as most technical-support personnel. I can edit a config.sys file and delete bad lines in an autoexec.bat with the best of them. I can partition a hard drive in FAT32
But why would I want to?

Douglas Rushkoff

#92. You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.

Tom Brokaw

#93. I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.

Marya Hornbacher

#94. In any medium, I also start out assuming - even planning - that I'll delete the first thing I do, whether it's a paragraph or the first few rows of a scarf. That makes those first steps far less precious and therefore less intimidating.

Kim Piper Werker