Net Bit Rate

Famous quotes containing the words net, bit and/or rate:

“You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.”
—Lucy Ellman (b. 1956)

“I don’t know but a book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf—at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel—you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety—& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)