Quotes About Operating

#1. The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list of these programs ... the need for each is either created or exacerbated by the breakup of families and marriages.

Wade Horn

#2. We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

Bill Gates

#3. Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each.

Scott Meyers

#4. Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#5. We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.

Garrison Keillor

#6. Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

Sigmund Freud

#7. Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.

Gary Zukav

#8. Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems.

Fritjof Capra

#9. I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books or ebooks, but while everyone gets heated about the choices, the hardcover fiction molders quietly away.

Deborah Meyler

#10. Understand your driving force, whether you're operating out of fear or love. When we operate in fear, we tend to hold back and not get the most from life. When we operate in love, we open new avenues and experience life more abundantly.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#11. I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.

Abraham Whipple

#12. Yes, we like to think of our children as Macintosh computers operating in a world full of PCs; they get the same answers but process things differently.

Gina Gallagher

#13. This planet was a marketplace where evil tugged murderously at its chains. Its spies were everywhere. At windy corners where young girls with knowing children's faces were selling flowers and matches, on the operating tables at the hospitals, in the slums, at railway stations, under viaducts.

Paul Leppin

#14. UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.
It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

David Wolfe

#15. True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are.

Sanaya Roman

#16. Right now we're in an arms race with the microbes, because, effectively, we're operating on the same scale that they are. The viruses are both our enemy and our arms manufacturer.

Steven Johnson

#17. I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation.

Alfred P. Sloan

#18. I'm very aware of how well I am operating in situations that I would have been incapable of broaching even last summer. Chris, Sabin, Eric, and Estelle, have rescued me, and I can't fathom how I can ever begin to repay them.

Jessica Park

#19. Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

Alfred W. Crosby

#20. But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.

Julia Child

#21. The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.

Michael Polanyi

#22. You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.

Uzo Aduba

#23. Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.

Praveen Kumar

#24. Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.

P. J. O'Rourke

#25. All perception and thought is relative, operating by comparison and contrast.

Paul Watzlawick

#26. As we begin to switch from operating out of fear and move toward operating out of love, we begin to change our have to's to get to's.

Jamie Gilbert

#27. Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.

Janet Street-Porter

#28. Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

Pope John Paul II

#29. Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.

Warren Buffett

#30. The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.

Ann Macbeth

#31. Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably can't get more out of it than you did yesterday.

Frederick Lenz

#32. With the rain falling
surgically against the roof,
I ate a dish of ice cream
that looked like Kafka's hat.
It was a dish of ice cream
tasting like an operating table
with the patient staring
up at the ceiling.

Richard Brautigan

#33. There's that effect that is very physical, very down there at the synaptic level, which really means microscopic cellular level, but also molecular level, because all of those structures are operating on an electrochemical basis and so the changes there are very important.

Antonio Damasio

#34. A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.

Marlo Thomas

#35. The First Insight is an awareness of the mysterious occurrences that change one's life, the feeling that some other process is operating.

James Redfield

#36. Is it too redneck to say you look sexy operating a radio? Chase..

Kristen Simmons

#37. It is by God's grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured. Therefore, we seek to honor God by operating the company in a manner consistent with biblical principles.

David Green

#38. Tell him that we have fucking reprogrammed reality. Tell him that language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and that prayers are just so much fucking spam. Tell him that or I'll fucking kill you, said the young man mildly, from the smoke.

Neil Gaiman

#39. The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.

Fred Hoyle

#40. Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Terry Pratchett

#41. Our government is operating within an unprecedented revenue shortfall and that we have an obligation to all citizens of the province to manage our finances responsibly. And that's what we're going to do.

Rachel Notley

#42. I'm not deaf and the Commission isn't operating in a parallel world of legal texts.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#43. My hacking involved pretty much exploring computer systems and obtaining access to the source code of telecommunication systems and computer operating systems, because my goal was to learn all I can about security vulnerabilities within these systems.

Kevin Mitnick

#44. I don't have any rift with President Obama at all. I think that he is operating in an entirely different arena than I'm dealing in. I represent my constituents in the Fourth Congressional District. I'm looking out admittedly for much more narrow interests. I represent the fourth-poorest district.

Gwen Moore

#45. Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

Michael Porter

#46. Historians will remember the first year of Microsoft Windows 10 for its willful vandalism of many computers through the release of a flawed operating system (OS) and mandatory flaky automatic updates.

Steven Magee

#47. We are able to breathe, drink, and eat in comfort because millions of organisms and hundreds of processes are operating to maintain a liveable environment, but we tend to take nature's services for granted because we don't pay money for most of them.

Eugene Odum

#48. Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

Richard Stallman

#49. Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

Steve Ballmer

#50. If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business by the Golden Rule. Make this a high priority; never make a decision that contradicts the Golden Rule.

Mary Kay Ash

#51. Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.

Carol Loomis

#52. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Henry Clay

#53. The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

Edward St. Aubyn

#54. American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.

Bill Dedman

#55. The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

Peter Thiel

#56. President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

Andrea Jung

#57. The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

Robert Benchley

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

Pope Benedict XVI

#59. Tell him that we fucking reprogrammed reality. Tell him that language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and that prayers are just so much fucking spam.

Neil Gaiman

#60. First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave your desk, your computer, your keyboard, whatever. Something is operating the back of your mind.

Terry Pratchett

#61. When I was operating as one of President Reagan's economic advisers, an early assignment was to analyze the federal government's landholdings and make recommendations about what to do with them. This was a big job. These lands are vast, covering an area six times that of France.

Steve Hanke

#62. God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#63. A good systems thinker, particularly in an organizational setting, is someone who can see four levels operating simultaneously: events, patterns of behavior, systems, and mental models.

Art Kleiner

#64. My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

Elizabeth Gilbert

#65. Both children and adults acquire knowledge from active participation in holistic, complex, meaningful environments organized around long-term goals. Today's school programs could hardly have been better designed to prevent a child's natural learning system from operating.

Sylvia Farnham-Diggory

#66. I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels.

Mithun Chakraborty

#67. I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

Louis Zamperini

#68. The soul cannot be seen in a biological laboratory, any more than pain can be seen on an operating table.

Fulton J. Sheen

#69. IN NEW YORK, you can get anything delivered. Such, anyway, is the principle I'm operating on.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#70. Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups, Palestinian radicals, al-Qaida, Druze militias and even armed bands of Marxists still operating in Lebanon.

Richard Engel

#71. EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them.

Peter Thiel

#72. Without a clear picture of where the military's covert forces are operating and what they are doing, Americans may not even recognize the consequences of and blowback from our expanding secret wars as they wash over the world.

Nick Turse

#73. Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.

George Monbiot

#74. Ignacio climbed into his lap and examined his face. It was a relief to be in a child's world, where kindness was the standard operating mode, where clarity was the order of the day, and adult posturing kept its distance. Hearings

Shanthi Sekaran

#75. I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#76. As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

Erik Qualman

#77. (Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians ... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies ... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#78. Now there is no other way of forming a habit of operation than by operating.

Mortimer J. Adler

#79. Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Winona LaDuke

#80. We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.

Amit Goswami

#81. Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

Eric S. Raymond

#82. Do not tend to hire only people who see what you see. Such a tendency may lead to a decline in operating profit, and even bankruptcy.

Eraldo Banovac

#83. I appreciate all the devices the Windows people are coming up with, but the operating system ... I just want to smash it.

Tim Daly

#84. I love doing deals and operating companies.

Michael Heisley

#85. In a sense, we here at the FSRI are like giant wizards at the controls of an incredible machine, operating levers and buttons from behind a great tapestry to provide you with the level of motivation and direction necessary for you to succeed!

Martin Fossum

#86. Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. A wonderful operator but, after all, what is operating? ... Manual labour.

George Bernard Shaw

#87. The curse of the cable industry over all these years as an operating reality is that every year the debt goes up (and) all the money generated gets reinvested, and then some.

John C. Malone

#88. I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.

Sam Reed

#89. I'm very happy that John Tory won. We need a mayor of Toronto that will work with the municipalities of the Greater Toronto Area. We are the economic engine of Canada and we're not operating on all cylinders by any means.

Hazel McCallion

#90. Human evil is a collapse of the moral faculty, but not an operating pursuing of the wrong.

Arvin Adriyan

#91. It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

Neal Stephenson

#92. I think science works the way a tightrope walker works: by not looking at its feet. As soon as it looks at its feet, it realizes its operating in midair.

Annie Dillard

#93. Whatever the trend in exchange rates or whatever the external factors, a manufacturing company is always faced with the mission of transforming itself into a company that can produce higher value-added to absorb the increase in the cost of living in the country it's operating in.

Fujio Mitarai

#94. Implementing Extreme Ownership requires checking your ego and operating with a high degree of humility. Admitting mistakes, taking ownership, and developing a plan to overcome challenges are integral to any successful team.

Jocko Willink

#95. Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

Octavio Paz

#96. Software = Future = Power = Money = Operating System (Software = Operating System).

Mehmet Kececi

#97. I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump.

Miguel De Icaza

#98. Courage is not my leading virtue. I've always avoided change of any sort, operating on the principle of safety first. I married a "safe" man. I've made my living performing humdrum work, work that bored other people so much that they'd pay someone else to do it.

Christina Bartolomeo

#99. Federal rules require the national rail network to have an operating PTC system by the end of the year, though many lawmakers have endorsed rail industry appeals for more time to comply.

Anonymous

#100. The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve the message of Christ, not the institutions of the church.

K.P. Yohannan