“ UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 355
“ Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1 2 tons. ”
- Popular Mechanics- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
- 2.3K
“ It hit me like a ton of bricks, and I had to almost hide my face, because tears were welling up in my eyes. Just the thought of playing with Bird, wow! ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script. ”
- Alexander Payne- Copy
- 681
“ You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind. ”
- Joely Richardson- Copy
- 1.5K
“ We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. ”
- Jim Rohn- Copy
- 3K
“ A modern U.S. Navy cruiser now requires 26 tons of manuals. This is enough to affect the vessel's performance. ”
- David Mankins- Copy
- 2.7K
“ My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. — ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
- 759
“ It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away. ”
- Harold Sydney Geneen- Copy
- 349
“ Like a ten-ton cake, the world is more than anyone can eat at one sitting. Select a piece of it, then enjoy the party. ”
- Samuel M Silver- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots. ”
- Vic Braden- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it. ”
- E. V. Cooke- Copy
- 1K
“ People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
- 509
“ Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it. ”
- Samuel Beckett- Copy
- 2.5K
“ There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it. ”
- Chuck Barris- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well. ”
- Alex Chilton- Copy
- 1.7K
“ There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous. ”
- Tobey Maguire- Copy
- 1.1K
“ With his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark. He can fly like a hawk in the air, see atoms like a gnat, see the system of the universe of Uriel carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift, knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The warehouse with all those crates, thousands of them, stretching out as far as the eye can see. 227 metric tons of fish from around the world-fish with muscular tails wide as a weight lifter's chest, fish with big, open mouths and shining eyes, fish from deep places and deep dreams. ”
- David Michaelis- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper. ”
- Frank Yerby- Copy
- 1.2K
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