We're talking about a world where the PC is no longer the center, but just a devicewhere your new devices need to be more portable, more personal.
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.
Remember trust is portable. Wherever you go, it follows you: good or bad.
If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.
Nintendo DS is not standing still. As a tenth serious competitor decides to make a run at Game Boy, DS raises the bar on portable gaming, before they even get started.
My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
One of the things I've realized is how portable God is. No really, He's everywhere!
Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable.
Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.
No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.
Thus even as servers die or are put to sleep, even as operating systems come and go, I can carry the work forward-despite all of the progress around me. [. . . ] But really, no complaints-it's fun to wander around in the middle of so much waste and progress, and I'd rather be here than anywhere. You just have to keep working out how to travel light and stay portable.
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Coal is a portable climate.
