Sophie Hannah

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.

British Poet

Barry Diller

The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.

American Businessman

John Sununu

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

American Politician

Mark Zuckerberg

I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you.

Paul Graham

When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea, like some student side project.

English Scientist

Michael Seibel

There is a directory where you can explore every single person who has gone through YC and a private forum that only founders can participate in.

Eva Marie

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

American Actress

Christine McVie

Recording 'Tusk' was quite absurd. The studio contract rider for refreshments was like a telephone directory.

American Musician

Donald Sinden

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

English Actor

Joan Rivers

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

American Comedian

Directories often help people quickly find contact details or information.

Organizational Tool

Directories exist both in print, like phone books, and online as databases.

Physical and Digital

Information in a directory is usually sorted alphabetically or by category.

Arranged Information

In computing, directories help organize files in a structured and navigable way.

File Organization

Computer directories can have multiple levels, called subdirectories.

Hierarchy Levels

Directory paths tell you where to find a file within the folder structure.

Path Navigation

 like community-supported agriculture schemes, urban food production, creating local food directories, and so on. A lot of places now are starting to set up their own energy companies, community-owned energy companies, where the community can invest money into itself, to start putting in place the kind of renewable energy infrastructure that we need.

Rob Hopkins: Transition...

 and they're saying, we want to go anywhere in the world and censor content. Now the mechanism, as I said, for doing this, is you need to take out anybody pointing to those IP addresses. You need to take them out of search engines, you need to take them out of online directories,

Defend our freedom to...

 It had recently gone public and the market said that it was apparently worth two billion dollars, a number I didn't really understand. A magazine I'd recently launched called Business 2.0 was fatter than a telephone directory, busy pumping hot air into the bubble.

Chris Anderson (TED): A...

 patient advocacy, research and health organizations. We built scalable and extensible resources, like biobanks and registries and directories of support for all diseases. And as I learned about all those diseases and all those disease communities,

Science didn't...

 is also to share failures and successes. We're at the very beginning of something that, what we're seeing and the way that mesh companies are coming forward, is inviting, it's engaging, but it's very early. I have a website -- it's a directory --

Lisa Gansky: The future...

 tens of discipline tags so the software what it does it mines the data and sees like who is similar to who across many many different dimensions to me that's quite an evolution to our directory on the fellows website which is basically a

Making sense of complex...

 thanking us for being here one of the most powerful ways in which we can help the Ted fellows is offering them the platform of Ted calm in addition to putting up a directory of their profiles and letting them blog in a continuous

The TED Fellows program

 with 3D, realistic, permanent nipple tattoos. We have a directory of artists throughout the UK that all work to a standard set by NIP, another standard, very important, and funding is available from the charity

The Restorative Power of...

 hurry up hurry up me to fish at a time it's a blessing and a curse change the directory if they cross lines sighs yes you cut them off

Catch of the Week -...

 So, this book that I have in my hand is a directory of everybody who had an email address