Quotes About Operating

I do know how to operate a computer. (Joe) Yeah, right. What was it you said just ten minutes ago? Get this damned thing off my desk before I shoot it? Now make the call, Mr. Hunt-and-Peck. (Tee)

It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.

psychic aptitudes were powers not of the mind, but powers in themselves, and powers that at times actually transcended "mind," or cut across it, or, even, were capable of operating when what we call "mind" was asleep or unconscious — or, even, when clinically dead. Indeed

And anyone on whose screen I did manage to appear, generally proved to have a serious malfunction in their operating system, if not outright clinical issues. "Are you a good glitch or a bad glitch?" I had started wondering...

There's a big movement out there that is not yet recognized as a movement," a lawyer who specializes in for-benefit organizations told The New York Times.6 One reason could be that traditional businesses are profit maximizers, which square perfectly with Motivation 2.0. These new entities are purpose maximizers—which are unsuited to this older operating system because they flout its very principles.

traditional businesses are profit maximizers, which square perfectly with Motivation 2.0. These new entities are purpose maximizers—which are unsuited to this older operating system because they flout its very principles.

The Muslim Brotherhood has decades of violent history covertly operating in the United States and is recognized by experts as having 100 times more active members than Al-Qaeda.

The true investor . . . will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operating results of his companies.

I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.

Lass, it still seems impossible. To alter a universe's whole operating system just by sayin' you want to—" "But Mt'gm'ry, there was at least one person I know of on your planet who used to do such things rather routinely. He codified one of the basic rules for the art: 'Ask, and it shall be given unto you.' An inspired creative physicist, way ahead of his time.

It seems like, if you really knew the God who understands the physics of our existence, you would operate a little more cautiously, a little more compassionately, a little less like you are the center of the universe.

I think I have actually discovered the computer-like control and operating system for physical reality and the real world as we know it.

Tomlinson had already written an E-mail utility for Tenex, BBN's new time-shared operating system for the PDP-10, and had also begun to experiment with a new version of the Arpanet's file-transfer protocol. So putting the two together seemed a natural step.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

Paul is rolled into the operating room and put to sleep with general anesthesia.

You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.

If you learn how to read the different operating systems and how they affect people's behavior, you will be much safer.

I really have nothing against rationality, or even doing what you think is best, or doing what is more likely to satisfy your desires. I have tried these strategies at various times, occasionally with good results. But I think the ideal of the rational agent is the source of lots of needless unhappiness. It's not the way many of us operate; it's certainly not the way I operate. And operating the way we do usually works just fine, and really isn't a reason to hang our heads in shame and despair.

When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

We might recall, however, that one of the characteristics of a safely operating taboo is that it remains invisible, beneath discussion, taken for granted.

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.'

One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.

Who was it who said that irony is the fundamental operating principle of the universe?" "I believe," I said, "that it was Henghis Hapthorn.