A Quote by Nathan Myhrvold

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

Nathan Myhrvold

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Nathan Myhrvold
American - Businessman
Born: August 3, 1959

Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in !

Nathan Myhrvold

The less money and time you have, the more you haveto plan ahead and be careful about your coverage. It's like a gas:it expands or contracts depending on the size of the container.

John Sayles

Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going to happen? You will lose it. Your container will overflow and the excess money will spill out all over the place. You simply cannot have more money than the container. Therefore you must grow to be a big container so you cannot only hold more wealth but also attract more wealth. The universe abhors a vacuum and if you have a very large money container, it will rush in to fill the space.

T. Harv Eker

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Rebecca Stead

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Albert Einstein

Goals are like the gas in your car, you may go in many different directions after you fill up, but with out the gas you are not going anywhere

Garrison Wynn

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Jerry Brown

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

C. Northcote Parkinson

I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only useful to a particular company or person: for example, the software immediately behind a web site's user interface. But the vast majority of software is actually pretty generic.

Brian Behlendorf

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Jerry Brown

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

Shirley Conran

Remember the law of the home: Junk expands to fill the space available, plus one room.

Deniece Schofield

I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.