Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Asher

My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction is missing: the Internet.

Microsoft is going to feel the pain: over 80 percent of desktop Windows are through sales of new PCs.

Windows CE is interoperable with the desktop operating system. I think Microsoft already dominates this space. It's going to be very tough.

Windows CE is interoperable with the desktop operating system, ... I think Microsoft already dominates this space. It's going to be very tough.

Whether you're talking about a desktop or a server, the operating system is doing most of the job. The application just tells the operating system to go do something, so anything you do to make the operating system faster makes the whole process faster.

Nat Friedman

Those little things give a desktop a sense of physicality.

Nobody cleans their desk because it's a personal space.

Jenny Nimmo

I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.

Jan Brett

I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.

What you can do at your desk you can do on the road. You can do it on the road, on a train, in a customer's office. You don't have to go find a hotspot.

We submitted the report to the prosecutor to have him look at it. We know she has the desk and it is a matter now to determine whether it is hers.

Steve Reich

He was very good. He could sit at a desk and write this music and, unlike a lot of them who faked it, he could really hear it in his head.

Linus Torvalds

I don't expect the desktop to come quickly. It will take time,

Claire Coffee

When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.

Three years ago, this room would have all been desktop PCs,

This puts Yahoo Mail on par with desktop programs like Outlook and Lotus Notes, and offers a better experience for users.

We have procedures. We will follow those procedures. We will operate our snow desk and run our equipment.

Bob Davidson

When I'm doing the job of the conductor, no matter if it's snowing, raining or scorching hot, I love doing this type work. I could never sit inside at a desk or anything.

Brian Wansink

Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away.

Alexandra Stoddard

When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.

Maggie Stiefvater

When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to me, they loved me, I was like their mascot, but I just couldn't stand working in an office. I just hated it. And so one day I went in and said, 'I'm sorry, this is my two-weeks notice, I'm quitting to become an artist.'

Andy Grove

I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

Gina McCarthy

Our issue is that we didn't issue the permit or inspect the site, ... We saw the basin on the news, and saw the application on the desk for that. When we saw the mudslide, we knew something had to be done.

Larry Sanders

Some of those guys will work the desk now.

I think every girl on the planet has done that. You can go look at my desk -- Jeannie Ad-Rock, Jeannie Schwimmer.

Bill Ward

I said, 'Hey, why don't you drop them off at the fuel desk and someone will pick them up in a few minutes.' And he did,

Paul Gallico

Law is a mental hair shirt. He admits a great longing for financial independence from the routine of desk slavery.

I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.

But we finally realized that if they found him slumped over his desk one day, he would have died doing something he loved.

Chuck Pagano

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.

Howard Dean

If the American people will put us back in power in '06, we will have on the president's desk things that outlaw all those kinds of behavior.

Miguel de Icaza

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.

Nat Friedman

Mac OS X isn't a free platform, and it runs on expensive hardware. It is not a plausible Windows alternative for our desktop customers, who are mainly large government organizations displacing Windows desktops and big enterprise corporations replacing Solaris workstations.