#opera

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds. ↗

— Orville Wright

#command #considered #could #estimate #first

Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action. ↗

— John Yoo

#action #al #allows #attacks #casualties

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#been #encourage #entrepreneurs #goal #operate

I don't like rock opera with back beats. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#beats #i #like #opera #rock

If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#becomes #capability #carry #critical #cyber

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#been #border #borders #cooperate #created

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#difficult #human #human beings #intersect #just

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#alone #deduction #intuition #knowledge #must

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#al-qaeda #any #between #collaboration #communicate

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' ↗

— Peter Drucker

#clerks #companies #computers #employment #even