“ 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
“ 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
“ Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. ”
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis- Copy
“ A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
“ The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
“ When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it. ”
- Herbert Clark Hoover- Copy
“ The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless. ”
- Raoul De Sales- Copy
“ The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
“ Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself. ”
- Marion Zimmer Bradley- Copy
“ Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
“ Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
“ W called me 'the young Delta Burke.' It's so sily. I weigh 105 pounds and wear a size two, but for some reason I'm a heavyweight. ”
- Christina Ricci- Copy
“ I know that he Matthew Broderick doesn't have his laundry done, and that he hasn't had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind. ”
- Sarah Jessica Parker- Copy
“ There is a lot of things to weigh up when a transfer happens, and money is a big factor. ”
- Richard Gough- Copy
“ We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. ”
- William Orville Douglas- Copy
“ There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
“ Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
“ Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without his thumb on the scale. ”
- Byron Langfeld- Copy
“ One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
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