A Quote by Mitch Kapor

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

Mitch Kapor

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Mitch Kapor
American - Businessman
Born: November 1, 1950

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

Louis Freeh

Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.

Jerome Wiesner

Whenever my water breaks it'll be like a fire hydrant!

Jessica Simpson

Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.

Arthur C. Clarke

The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to the environment of the internet, which is an environment of kind of constant immersion and information and constant distractions, interruptions, juggling lots of messages, lots of bits of information.

Nicholas G. Carr

Sometimes I feel like the fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs.

William J. Clinton

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

Ben Nelson

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Some days I feel like I'm only the fire hydrant to Westminster dog show.

Bob Beckel

A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.

Frank Miller

I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoohah! Apparently I have a lot of amniotic fluid, so whenever my water breaks it will be like a fire hydrant!

Jessica Simpson

In the early stages of Internet in Japan, many said that Japanese and Americans are different. There are 10 reasons why Japanese Internet is not taking off. I said none of them are right; it's just a time lag. And, of course, Japanese Internet took off.

Masayoshi Son

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

David Foster Wallace

I feel like when you do Twitter, sometimes you just have an idea and you fire it off and don't really think too hard about the consequences of that. I think my reputation there is as a comedian and not someone to be taken seriously. But I like the idea of getting out false information and just muddying up the story and making it as confusing and, you know, schizophrenic as possible.

Tim Heidecker

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.

Jeff Rich

Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures.

Kate Moss

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