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Quotes About Operating

I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to operate at any length. That also means shorter stuff, too.
~ Robin Sloan
We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.
~ Douglas Feith
I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.
~ Jamie Zawinski
Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.
~ Wietse Venema
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
I have developed my eye as a cinematographer through the craft of operating. When I am not operating, I am often anxious, uncertain, restless, sometimes irritable. When I am in the position of working with Steadicam or remote cameras, I fly with a broken wing.
~ Robert Richardson
The history of political movements in the African diaspora is that the solution to the problem is never in the hands of people who are advancing the movement. I try and operate on my own terms.
~ Kerry James Marshall
I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre.
~ Brigitte Nielsen
The first set of mistakes we make with strangers—the default to truth and the illusion of transparency—has to do with our inability to make sense of the stranger as an individual. But on top of those errors we add another, which pushes our problem with strangers into crisis. We do not understand the importance of the context in which the stranger is operating.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Windows no longer comes in a Windows RT version. If you bought a Windows RT tablet, such as the Surface RT or Surface 2, you can't upgrade it to Windows 10.
~ Andy Rathbone
To confuse everybody, Microsoft never released a Windows 9. Microsoft skipped a version number when moving from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.
~ Andy Rathbone
Confirmation bias isn't an occasional bug in our human operating system. It is the operating system. We are designed by evolution to see new information as supporting our existing opinions, so long as it doesn't stop us from procreating. Evolution doesn't care if you understand your reality. It only cares that you reproduce.
~ Scott Adams
The soul cannot be seen in a biological laboratory, any more than pain can be seen on an operating table.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.
~ Chesley Sullenberger
OPERATING YOUR TABLE RADIO To hear Bach's 5th Brandenburg Concerto, turn radio ON. To not hear Bach's 5th Brandenburg Concerto, turn radio OFF.
~ Rupert Holmes
At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.
~ Jakob Nielsen
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
~ Robert Benchley
A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.
~ John P. Kotter
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)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Keep the operating entities—the ones that deal with the public—away from the asset-owning entities.
~ Garrett Sutton
To obtain such protection it is important to sign any agreement as an officer of the LLC. By signing an agreement "Joe Doe" without adding "Manager, XYZ, LLC" you can become personally liable. The world must be put on notice that you are operating as an independent entity.
~ Garrett Sutton
By including special language in your LLC's operating agreement you may be able to create a safe harbor to insure that future special allocations will have a substantial economic effect.
~ Garrett Sutton
El ego es como un virus informático que ataca al centro del sistema operativo.
~ Marianne Williamson
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.
~ Anthony Burgess