#operating

And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#air #air force #experience #extension #faster

If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#hard #oil #operating #refinery #use

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#genius #operating #operating system #simple #simplicity

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating. ↗

— John Yoo

#benefits #cannot #convention #cooperating #example

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#foreign #grown #iraq #majority #operating

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice. ↗

— Frederick Wiseman

#aspects #assumes #choice #edit #editing

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#body #consciousness #death #demonstrates #independently

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#earth #like #manual #operating #spaceship

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#ambitious #because #become #behind #effectively

I was only operating at about 80% of my capacity. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#capacity #i #only #operating