#operating

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#bladder #day #decided #everything #examined

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

This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#enjoy #life-instructions #operating-manual #life

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

#microsoft #monopoly #operating #operating systems #over

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#earth #like #manual #operating #spaceship

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. ↗

— Bill Gates

#between #bureaucrat #draw #line #magic

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace. ↗

— Henry Knox

#been #composed #each #ever #federal

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#any #death #king #luther #martin

The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see. ↗

— Venus Williams

#about #ball #being #big #body

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#bad #because #best #great #great thing