But hers was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 8. Victor about Justine.
You can’t understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving. – Ian Hislop
In this new world, with smartphones and tablets and cloud computing, things are moving around fast. – Hector Ruiz
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. – Italo Calvino
Call it a hunch, but I sense that many of us are not entirely comfortable with a world in which every single thing we buy creates a cloud of data. I’d like to have an option to not have a record of how much I tipped, or what I bought at 1:08 A.M. at a corner market in New York City. – John Battelle
The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it’s a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare. – Jamais Cascio
When documents were analog, they were protected by government laws against unreasonable search and seizure. When they live in the cloud… the ground is shifting. – John Battelle
Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services. – Jamais Cascio
GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing. – Jack Dangermond
Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness. – Aberjhani
I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud. – Audrey MacLean
If you think about the market that we’re in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that’s happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. – Aaron Levie
The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified. – Bob Woodward
In the case of Comcast, we’re taking a lot of our technology into the cloud, so you don’t need a new box every time you want to innovate. And it’s all speeding up. – Brian L. Roberts
The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. – Condoleezza Rice
I had done a cover of the song ‘Nenani Neevani’ and put it up on Sound Cloud, which Sunny M.R., the music composer of Rowdy Fellow, came across. He liked it and approached me for ‘Yedho.’ – Armaan Malik
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen. – Bob Dylan
Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms. – Alex Shoumatoff
Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else’s hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files. – Barton Gellman
Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud. – Andrew Greeley
Each customer has unique deployment needs, and as a result, CIOs value the flexibility that our hybrid cloud offerings provide. – Amy Hood
Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression. – Amy Winehouse
I feel comfortable in saying that the traction for TotalGuide and Rovi Cloud Services is strong, and I expect it to continue to strengthen. – Alfred Amoroso
In addition to transitioning to the cloud, our customers continue to invest in premium versions of our on-prem server products like Window Server, System Center and SQL Server. – Amy Hood
