Quotes About Licenses

#1. I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'

Barton Gellman

#2. TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.

Jonathan Zittrain

#3. That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

Nancy Jo Sales

#4. I believe that requiring those already in Texas to obtain driver's licenses would ensure they pass a driver's test and meet the requirements to obtain auto insurance.

Dan Patrick

#5. The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

Robert McChesney

#6. At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.

Cheech Marin

#7. I can't see a problem with imposing fines on drivers who violate traffic safety laws. The speed limit is the speed limit. A red light means stop. These things haven't changed since people got their driver's licenses.

Robert James Thomson

#8. In California, more than 1 million undocumented immigrants become eligible to apply for driver's licenses. People who entered or stayed in the country illegally will be able to drive legally in the state.

Anonymous

#9. First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.

Bobby Jindal

#10. We use our tax dollars to pay some bureaucrat to kill a mountain lion, dig a hole and bury this precious beast. No one gets to eat it, nobody gets to buy licenses, fees and taxes themselves. And that's only after a mountain lion has killed somebody! Oh my God! And the Osbournes are still No. 1!

Ted Nugent

#11. [Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.

George Will

#12. I believe that we do our country a disservice when we make it harder for new American immigrants to abide by the rules of the road and obtain drivers licenses.

Martin O'Malley

#13. At Square, we got our tech up and running in three weeks, but it took us 18 months to get licenses, banking relationships and everything else we needed to be able to move money. We had to partner up with major companies to do it.

Jim McKelvey

#14. To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

Sandra Cisneros

#15. University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

Allan Bloom

#16. I do not support amnesty. I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

Brian Sandoval

#17. Eleven growers from Colorado to Germany have jumped at the chance to bid on pot farming licenses in Uruguay.

Anonymous

#18. In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

Joe Baca

#19. After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California

Jerry Brown

#20. [The media] are using a national treasure
that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.

Amy Goodman

#21. Suppose a state said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional?

Elena Kagan

#22. Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield.

Geoff Downes

#23. Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.

Linus Torvalds

#24. The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.

George Soros

#25. Driver's licenses & scholarships for illegals; not amnesty.

Bill Richardson

#26. If only marriage licenses came with a buyer's remorse clause.
~Detective Mike Malone

D.B. Woodling

#27. I'm a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

Keith Rothfus

#28. Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.

George Ryan

#29. Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.

Tim Schafer

#30. Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities.

Elton Gallegly

#31. What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

George Carlin

#32. I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.

Anna Sui

#33. Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage,

Richelle Mead

#34. No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

Moby

#35. All the women who actually drove were mature professionals who had international drivers' licenses they'd acquired overseas. Many

Geraldine Brooks

#36. For example, people who don't know how to drive may nevertheless want to drive their car. But society feels that it is better if they don't, because of what it means for the rest of us. A free market in driver's licenses obviously cannot solve this problem.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#37. Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.

Jack Kingston