Quotes About Indexes

#1. Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

David Boies

#2. Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.

Ben Stein

#3. Commend me to the cardinal,' said Milady. 'Commend me to Satan,' replied Rochefort.

Alexandre Dumas

#4. Google indexes the world's information.

Jason Calacanis

#5. People interest me so much. They're such wonderful puzzles. Think of it. Half the time we've no idea what we're doing, but we live anyway.

Paula McLain

#6. Detailed analytical indexing is generally the hallmark of good back-of-the-book indexes.

Hans H Wellisch

#7. Index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail.
Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

Alexander Pope

#8. When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.

Ben Falcone

#9. The word photography comes from two ancient Greek words: photo for "light" and graph for "drawing." "Drawing with light" is a way of describing photography.

Vishal Diwan

#10. No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life

Rigoberta Menchu

#11. Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Cyril Connolly

#12. Well, I've never met an indexer any more than I've met a real writer. I'm impressed." Miss Finch's tone had changed, and she was suddenly leaning toward me, almost half over the counter. "Tell me, do you make any real money at this job, writing indexes for books?

Larry D. Sweazy

#13. China frequently confounds stock market prognosticators because it has a penchant for straying markedly from other broad global indexes year-by-year over the decades - even from emerging markets. It's hit or miss.

Kenneth Fisher

#14. Acting was always my first passion.

Janet Jackson

#15. Inflammation in the body) is a very healthy 0.01, and all of my other indexes (for heart disease, diabetes, and other conditions) are at ideal levels.

Ray Kurzweil

#16. If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

Hal Abelson

#17. The man who publishes a book without an index ought to be damned 10 miles beyond hell, where the Devil himself cannot get for stinging nettles.

John Baynes

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Shalini

#19. We weren't meant to live forever, nor dwell in solitude. A life without change is no life.

Mark Lawrence

#20. everyone is acting a part all the time, knowingly or unknowingly.

R.K. Narayan

#21. I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.

Lisa Yuskavage

#22. For the success,
Although particular, shall give a scantling
Of good or bad unto the general;
And in such indexes, although small pricks
To their subsequent volumes, there is seen
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come at large.

William Shakespeare

#23. [With] closet indexing ... you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you have such a system, you're being played for a sucker.

Charlie Munger

#24. It is well documented that the same text, indexed by several indexers, will result in as many slightly or even substantially different indexes, and even the same indexer will produce varying indexes for the same text at different times.

Hans H Wellisch

#25. He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

Christopher Hitchens

#26. I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

Edward Teller

#27. In fact, some people who rate very high marks on the ego-based indexes of success are the ones I find most difficult to be around - and totally uninspiring

Wayne W. Dyer

#28. To paraphrase an old philosophical question, if a tree falls on the Internet and no search engine indexes it, does it make any noise?

Marc Goodman

#29. Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend's house during a power failure.

Bob Hope