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Directory Quotes

The word directory, from phone books to streaming menus.

One of the more memorable directory quotes here trusts an ordinary telephone directory's worth of citizens over a university faculty, a jab at expertise versus common sense. Another imagines every star in the Milky Way stacked into a directory the size of a business district.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr.

We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of...

Quotes by John Rhys-Davies

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.

Quotes by John McAfee

WWE Network has been phenomenal for me. It's an amazing directory for not only myself, but for anyone who's into wrestling.

Quotes by Eva Marie

Able Quotes

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

Quotes by Donald Sinden

Frequently Asked Questions

Why compare a phone directory to a university faculty?
The quote is making a point about trusting ordinary citizens' judgment, saying a random page of a Boston telephone directory would govern better than Harvard's faculty.
What's the point of the Milky Way and Hollywood directory comparison?
It's a way of expressing scale, imagining a directory big enough to list every star in the galaxy the way a phone book lists business and residential numbers.
Does this page cover computer file directories too?
Yes, one quote gives practical network advice against placing shareware in a shared file-server directory accessible to any other computer.
Is a streaming service really called a directory?
One speaker does exactly that, calling the WWE Network an amazing directory for wrestling fans, stretching the old word to a modern subscription service.
What ties these very different directory quotes together?
Each one uses "directory" as a stand-in for an enormous, organized list, whether that list is people, stars, files, or streaming content.

More practical entries cover network file-server directories and access controls for any connected computer. The set closes on a modern note, calling a streaming service an amazing directory for wrestling fans.