#opera

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them? ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

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Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#concerned #consume #could #guess #internet

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. ↗

— Paul Getty

#industries #notorious #operate #profit #their

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#accepted #because #been #considered #country

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

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

#been #belongs #general #i #life

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries. ↗

— Michael Giles

#being #boundaries #coming #created #decided

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. ↗

— William Godwin

#cannot #continue #desire #influence #operate

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. ↗

— William Godwin

#everything #evil #sense #some #term