Quotes of: Operating-system Keyword

You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.

Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

I'd rather do more with the same, then the same with less.

Identifying and Realizing Operational Efficiencies In Non-Profit Organizations

Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.

Nathan Myhrvold

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.

Leland Stanford

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Bill Gates

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

If there's one operation for a disease, you know it works. If there are 15 operations, you know that none of them work.

Sherwin B. Nuland

The Operative: You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords. Dr. Mathias: Well, unfortunately, I forgot to bring a sword. Dr. Mathias: [as the Operative pulls out ...

Serenity

The Operative: I want to resolve this like civilized men. I'm not threatening you. I'm unarmed. Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Good. [pulls gun and shoots Operative in the chest, knocking him into the wall, grabs Inara and gets ready to leave] The Operative...

Serenity

He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate the Army, not even now. He remembered what Maureen had told him once that it was the system that was at fault. But he could not even blame the system, ...

From Here to Eternity

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier.

Paul Cellucci

The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was going to subvert the hemisphere.

Robert Dallek

We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.

S. Truett Cathy

Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.

Julie Bishop

Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.

Tom Shadyac

In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine.

Ahmed Yassin

My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.

Henning Mankell

Computer Operator: Gentlemen, I know how anxious you've all been during these last few days. But now I think I can safely say that your time and money have been well-spent. We're about to witness the greatest miracle of the machine age. Based on the ...

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

The Sniper must not be susceptible to emotions such as anxiety and remorse,

Crosshairs on the Kill Zone: American Combat Snipers, Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

Stephen Hadley

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

R. Buckminster Fuller