#capable

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#capable #capacity #comparable #could #development

It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#day #day to day #find #fragile #heroes

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#another #capable #could #expense #friend

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#any #attributes #capable #come #i

Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation. ↗

— John Abizaid

#certainly #defend #efficient #enough #forces

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#allowed #anyone #capable #fact #facto

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#allowed #anyone #capable #getting #job

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#capable #creatures #disposed #distinguished #faculty

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense. ↗

— Aeschylus

#inescapable #net #own #ruin #sense

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home. ↗

— Eric Bana

#also #because #between #breaks #capable