Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That’s quite independent from Java, actually. – Guido van Rossum
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming. – Garrison Keillor
As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets. – David Blunkett
I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don’t pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works. – Charles Petzold
A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it’s an heirloom, and it’s also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder whether the laugh really belongs to you. – Elizabeth McCracken
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. – The Bible Malachi 3:10
Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies. – Len Buckeridge
I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don’t find anything technically interesting there. – Linus Torvalds
Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they’ll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform. – Jim Allchin
What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I’ve seen in Mumbai, the ‘big city’, will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them. – Kailash Kher
Growing up I always shopped at Victoria’s Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows. – Lindsay Ellingson
I don’t try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don’t really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different. – Linus Torvalds
The gaming experience on Windows Vista is going to go beyond any of the gaming consoles and anything that’s been done before. – Jim Allchin
It’s doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista. – Lynn Coady
When you say ‘I wrote a program that crashed Windows,’ people just stare at you blankly and say ‘Hey, I got those with the system, for free.’ – Linus Torvalds
I’ve actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows. – Megan Fox
I see the role of the writer as creating a room with big windows and leaving the reader to imagine. It’s a meeting on the page. – Kevin Crossley-Holland
We have only one Windows. We don’t have multiple Windows. They run across multiple form factors, but it’s one developer platform, one store, one tool chain for developers. And you adapt it for different screen sizes and different input and output. – Satya Nadella
We had the Windows app store in Windows 8, but one of the big changes in the design of Windows 10 is to make sure that the app store is front and center where our usage is, which is the desktop. – Satya Nadella
I’m carrying an iPhone 5. I like this device. It’s been impressive. I have a Windows and an Android device… I carry an iPad. I carry a Kindle… Yeah, I have a lot of devices. – Randall L. Stephenson
When we think about Windows, we want to think of it as a broad platform, from wearables to industrial IoT platforms to PCs and tablets. – Satya Nadella
People don’t throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth. – Russell Brand
Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows. – Robert Fortune