Filtering Quotations

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

Hiring's tough. It's not just filtering through hundreds of applications and blocking out big chunks of your day for interviews - those are the simple parts. The difficult thing is the nagging feeling that, despite your best efforts, the perfect candidate will somehow fall through the cracks.

In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.

Every chemical that makes it into your bloodstream - be it through your lungs, stomach, or skin - meets up with your liver at some point. Since your liver is your body's best defense when it comes to filtering out all those toxins, you need to treat it well.

Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.

Corporate efficiency has led to a nasty trend of filtering resumes for keywords. This might save time, but it ensures that many of the best candidates will never make it to the interview.

I can't say I'm particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net, but I think technology can deal with many of the problems that we're now seeing, whether it's filtering or whatever, and laws may help a lot.

One of the most noticeable aspects of 2005 was the series of changes to world textile rules allowing China to export more clothing and footwear. We're still seeing the affects of that filtering through.

On the back side, we see pings from Blogger.com, and an enormous number are splogger pings. Google obviously has a filtering mechanism in its own perimeter. They use search and textual analysis tools, quickly and fairly accurately, I'd say. You'd likely find two or three out of 50 that are spam blogs.

One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there to predict when people would try to cheat the system to get money. But you can predict pretty much any behavior with a certain amount of accuracy.

nature is pretty good about self-recovery, but a lot depends on what man does to hinder or assist in that recovery. The nice thing about wetlands is that they can cleanse and filter water as it moves through, but too much contamination can overwhelm this natural filtering system and destroy it.

I didn't like filtering the story through me, saying, 'Reader, you'll be safe with me. While it gets a little dangerous, it'll be okay because, after all, you're with me, because I'm a warm convivial voice. But let's be entertained by this horrible stuff.' I didn't like that.

Mirapoint's multi-layered approach to spam, including its unique MailHurdle technology, was the ideal solution for Jayman's spam problem. By blocking spam at the edge of the network, then filtering for content, Mirapoint demonstrated high accuracy rates -- ensuring executives aren't spending hours each day searching for 'lost' email. The simplicity of an appliance with robust user controls and high accuracy rates made the switch to Mirapoint nearly invisible to end-users. All they noticed was better email.

There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.

If a company allows itself -- in its filtering capability -- to filter terms such as 'democracy' and 'religious freedom,' they will be in violation of U.S. law.

But the constant filtering into the home of information about government, through mothers now as well as fathers, is making itself felt.

Gone are the days of bulky faucet-mounted filtering systems or the hassles associated with water pitchers. This system is extremely easy to install and is priced to become a part of consumers' daily lives -- something they'll wonder how they ever lived without.

What makes this program not just historically relevant but also immensely entertaining are the personal reflections and pop culture content that will be key components of Back in the Day . Central to the concept and what really makes this stand out is the decidedly modern approach to the vintage footage. In filtering the storied past of the sport through the prism of the high-tech present, two key elements clearly emerge - Dale Jr.'s unabashed enthusiasm and respect for this era; and the sheer magnitude of the changes that have occurred over time.

There is no effective filtering out of copyrighted works operating now within Napster. We believe it is willful, ... Virtually all of the music that we noticed to Napster, that they claimed they have filtered out, is still available on their system.

Pc-cillin protects against viruses as well as protects against spyware and adware. It also has spam filtering and gives you a firewall to protect you from people trying to get into your computer. Norton 2005 does the same thing.

Pearl Software has been a leader in functionality since its first commercial product was introduced in 2000. Now Pearl Echo-Suite 7(TM) meets the expanding demand for scalable e-communications monitoring, filtering and control solutions in the enterprise. The power of Pearl Echo-Suite 7(TM) is that now network managers can monitor, filter and control the e-communications activities of employees wherever they are. With full remote capability, Pearl Echo-Suite 7(TM) gives control of Internet use back to network manager.

It allows virus-checking software in an e-mail to filter on that extension and to search files coming in with that extension more carefully, or to exclude them altogether on a content filtering gateway while allowing the majority of the office docs to pass through without hindrance. My only concern is making a smooth transition to the new format.

I think these markets are pretty resilient. We're seeing individual investors really taking advantage of the long term ... filtering out the short-term.

Over at Barb Bowman, she's arguing that we should turn off Facebook's tracking of ads. I totally disagree; those trackers make newsfeed filtering work better and potentially could help bring me better ads, which improves my life.

Our biggest concern is filtering out bad video content that we don't want to expose kindergartners to.

I will talk to him and see what's happening. He told me and the staff at halftime that he couldn't go. Now, there's stuff filtering out that there's frustration there. We'll see.

We were able to continue filtering for a number of hours afterward. But we didn't have sufficient generator capacity to backwash our filters.

We're 11 months through the year and any measure of core inflation hasn't captured a filtering down of higher commodity or energy prices. That's why we continue to see the 10-year yield under 4.5 percent.

Yahoo uses elaborate filtering techniques to identify who users are and those providing auction goods. All (Yahoo) auctions can be searched by keywords and you can get the site to alert you to specific keywords as buying opportunities emerge.

We pride ourselves on aligning with expert partners. This strategically important relationship truly raises the bar when it comes to filtering and sorting multiple-language news. This agreement, coupled with our EMEA launch, clearly demonstrates our commitment to driving the use of search technology globally.

We think this statute will be struck down. There are less restrictive means to protect children such as blocking and filtering tools which are the only solutions with a global Internet.

We've asked Yahoo to use their filtering to prevent piracy, not for profit. We tried to discuss it with Yahoo.

While marketers have clearly recognized that they have delivery challenges, they also are not allocating the necessary resources or taking the longer-term steps needed to minimize blocking and filtering of their e-mails.

We need to guard against the situation where big companies, local or international, can corner the market, which can in turn lead to price-fixing and bid-rigging. There is concern within the work force and government that the fruits of economic recovery are not filtering down to unskilled workers.

We've been questioning victims, witnesses, employees of the special services, specialists in mines and explosives ? and we are filtering what they have told us through the physical evidence so that we can establish a three-dimensional picture of what was happening at the scene,

The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.

The sharp rally on Wall Street is filtering through the currency market and lifting the U.S. dollar.

The search query data could have shown why filtering software doesn't always work.

Filtering technologies, and the way that they are implemented, are becoming more sophisticated.

They're working on what we call a retention pond so at the bottom of the 28-acre watershed will be the pond. It'll be the final practice on our watershed that'll help with filtering out the pollutants,

Young people by the time they get to high school today are expected to have some kind of focus. The age of exploration is filtering down to the middle school level, and Franklin has an opportunity to take advantage of that.

Inflation is key for investors trying to guess when the last rate increase is coming. Every month that shows energy prices aren't filtering through is a positive.

In some oil fields there are hundreds or thousands of wells. The filtering allows them to focus on wells based on specific criteria, such as top producers.

The nice thing about wetlands is that they can cleanse and filter water as it moves through, ... But too much contamination can overwhelm this natural filtering system and destroy it.

The U.S. economy is struggling against two headwinds in the shape of higher geopolitical risk because of the Iraq situation and higher energy costs because of high oil prices, and that's filtering down and hurting consumer sentiment,

Cisco does not customize, or develop specialized or unique filtering capabilities, in order to enable different regimes to block access to information. Cisco sells the same equipment in China as it sells worldwide.

If you review them from someone else's perspective, you have a better filtering system to filter out people that wouldn't work for you,

Because when these DDOS attacks swamp access lines, then filtering at the other end doesn't help.

I didn't know Andy Kennedy. There are a lot of folks who just like their names in the newspaper and want to be perceived as being part of the search for their own reasons. We wanted to see how wide a net we could cast, then start filtering out the ones who didn't fit.

The bulletins may have been presented as medical but in reality they were texts drawn up by the patient and his advisers. This wasn't medical communication but the filtering out of politically-based information,

All of a sudden the president doesn't want his Web access filtered, so you remove the Web filtering only for him. Or some engineers want to FTP into a workstation. Next thing you know, you have different rules for different people.

The library board was wrestling with the recent court decision on CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act) which restricted federal funding for Internet access to libraries that refused to use filtering software. The board preferred education over filters to protect children from the dangers that exist on the Internet because filtering software is known for filtering out important health and medical sites.

The filtering companies have stepped into the breech. Technology is an appealing fix.

It's surreal. They are wasting taxpayers' money on coming up with technology to counteract filtering provided by U.S. companies. We think taxpayers in the U.S. should be aware of what is going on, because it is their money.

Even when spam doesn't get to your inbox, it uses up bandwidth. The necessary increased filtering also risks blocking genuine e-mails.

Echelon is not a collection system, but an extensive filtering system.

They may have to undertake additional activities on the order of filtering or screening.

There's a cat-and-mouse game going on between states that seek to control the information environment and citizens who seek to speak freely online. Filtering technologies, and the way that they are implemented, are becoming more sophisticated.

We're going to attempt to come up with solutions in helping the filtering process be successful.

It should start filtering on through. It's kind of an experiment for us this year. We're getting some good feedback and some bad. But these kids are young. This is new to them.

However, it seems that is never going to happen. So if people are going to filter, I want them to be open and transparent with their users about what they are filtering and why.

The market is still very cautious about the damage caused by Hurricane Rita, and they're just digesting new information filtering in about damage to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico,