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Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

Quote by Bill Gates about human imperfections

Wind velocity increases in direct proportion to how well...

Wind velocity increases in direct proportion to how well your hat fits.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

The number of open service windows at banks, post offices, airline counters, etc... always equals [n/2 - m], n being the total number of windows and m being a random number between 1 and the total number of windows minus 1.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about commerce, numbers, bankers, being

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each...

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Quote by Cecil Frank Powell about science, nature

Truth, justice, knowledge – windows, windows... such a...

Truth, justice, knowledge – windows, windows... such a need for Sun!

Quote by Mariana Fulger about truth, sun, justice, knowledge, need

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Quote by Alan Alda about opinion, light, world

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

Quote by Charles Babbage

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, ...

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Quote by Edward Abbey

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about press, thinking, idea, public, things, good, good luck, people

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they...

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, old, olderness, people

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon...

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Quote by Aesop about courage, force, police

The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about moon, celebrity, sun

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no...

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about pray, things

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not...

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about things

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Quote by Winston Churchill

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot...

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Quote by Charles Dickens about sun, day, light

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like...

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

Quote by Glenn Close

A ship is said to be on the starboard or larboard tack, when she is close-hauled, with the wind upon the starboard or larboard side; and in this sense the distance which the sails in that position is considered as the length of the tack; although...

Quote by William Falconer about common sense, sense

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious...

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

Quote by William Falconer

The excellence of a road consists chiefly in its being protected from the reigning winds, and the swell of the sea; in having a good anchoring-ground, and being at a competent distance from the shore.

Quote by William Falconer about being, good, good luck

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