Fingerprint Quotes

You've really got an auto-centric mentality among the bureaucratic elite. They've got absolutely no conception of the role that rail plays. ... All they're trying to do is to destroy the company and not have their fingerprints on it. - David Gunn

You sweep your finger over the sensor. ... A flood of images goes from the fingerprint sensor into our chip. A fingerprint sensor in one of our tiny image processor chips is built into the handle of a gun. ... You grab the gun, you sweep the finger over the sensor and, in less than a heartbeat, if you are authorized to fire the gun, you can. Otherwise you can't. - Steve Morton

You have to remember, we're talking about 1861 or 1862. Abraham Lincoln was president. Local potters had to make these items from clay found in the area. We have some pieces with the fingerprints of the potters still on them. - Julie Schablitsky

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb. - Nancy Banks Smith

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints. - Carlos Santana

You can see fingerprints on some of the pennies, we've pinched them so hard. Our stewardship has been magnificent. - Michael Gallagher

Writing is the indelible fingerprint of my soul on paper. - Michelle L Buckley

Without giving names, there is an access control system on the market now that reads cards and fingerprints. If you present a valid card to the reader and a valid fingerprint, you can get in. Trouble is, the card and fingerprint do not have to be from the same person. This is called a print mismatch. There are a couple of mismatch issues that should be taken up by standards committees. - Peter Boriskin

While we don't know how many fingerprint errors are caught in the lab and then swept under the rugor, worse, how many have still not been caught and may have resulted in a wrongful convictionwe clearly need a full evaluation of the errors. The argument that fingerprints are infallible evidence is simply unacceptable. - Simon Cole

When police retrace the history of a serial predator after he is finally caught, they often find that he never had a prior criminal conviction, but did have a prior arrest. That means the only way they are likely to catch such a perpetrator after his first crime -- rather than his 10th -- is if authorities can maintain a comprehensive database of all those who are arrested, just as we do with fingerprints. - Jon Kyl