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Quotes About Shutdown

Why are people so obsessed with Pets.com? We shut it down and returned money to shareholders. Besides, there were plenty of other dot-com failures around then.
~ Julie Wainwright
We don't want to see the government shut down.
~ Dick Durbin
You can shut down our economy and the effect on climate change, it will be nothing.
~ Maxime Bernier
The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.
~ Roger Goodell
The consequence of shutting down the government was not healthy.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
Frankly, no issue is worth shutting down the government and denying pay to those committed to public service.
~ Pete Gallego
Unfortunately as the result of the shutdown of the shuttle program, we lost an entire generation of people experience and capable of making risk judgment.
~ Gene Kranz
If the Internet or air traffic of the financial center of the world shuts down, of course the world needs to have a say on it.
~ Joshua Wong
Wu shrugged. "So? Just reset: shut the system down and you'll clear memory." "I've never done it before," Arnold said. "And I'm reluctant to do it. Maybe
~ Michael Crichton
The two other states that moved most quickly to shut down, Ohio and Maryland, had also paid close attention to Carter's analysis.
~ Michael Lewis
After a short discussion, the conclusion is to dust off the old SHUTDOWN_DAMMIT command that we used to use when things went to hell back during thermal vac. SHUTDOWN_DAMMIT should shut things down cold and should prevent any comm windows from opening up until the commanded wake-up time, which won't be until tomorrow morning.
~ Steve Squyres
Good uses of volatile variables include ensuring the visibility of their own state, that of the object they refer to, or indicating that an important lifecycle event (such as initialization or shutdown) has occurred.
~ Brian Goetz
I always want to make sure we protect our soldiers' pay if there is a shutdown of any kind.
~ Trent Franks
The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay.
~ Eric Cantor
This includes, crucially, checking e-mail, as well as browsing work-related websites. In both cases, even a brief intrusion of work can generate a self-reinforcing stream of distraction that impedes the shutdown advantages described earlier for a long time to follow (most people are familiar, for example, with the experience of glancing at an alarming e-mail on a Saturday morning and then having its implications haunt your thoughts for the rest of the weekend).
~ Cal newport
I stared at her, speechless. There were so many things wrong with what she said that my brain experienced a momentary shutdown.
~ Ilona Andrews
The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.
~ Newt Gingrich
Although the rig's crew had, in principle, shut down the flow of oil and gas to the platform, so much
~ Tim Harford
Shutting down civilization is actually hard. The fiercer the disaster, the faster the chaos burns out.
~ Kevin Kelly
All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
~ James Buchan
Those Tea Party people are crazy. I mean, they're lunatics. They close down the government, throw people out of their jobs - hundreds of thousands of people - and they say that they're doing it ultimately in the interest of creating jobs.
~ George Takei
We described the coronavirus crisis as more of a shock to the system as opposed to a full-blown recession which would spiral into a depression as the economy shut down.
~ Cathie Wood
If the government shuts down, nothing happens, and we all move on, because it just doesn't matter. Stasis in the government is actually good for all of us.
~ Chamath Palihapitiya
A lot of nasty things were said about me in my own party about my unwillingness to demand the government shutdown.
~ Cory Gardner