Deleted State

Famous quotes containing the words deleted and/or state:

“There is never finality in the display terminal’s screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.”
—Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941)

“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)