#operating

Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#been #before #bought #could #criticized

If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#becomes #center #chip #dizzying #got

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#cooperating #cooperation #father #invention #like

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#choice #competition #consumers #direction #fair

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#being #cannot #cooperating #either #fly

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#children #daughter #discuss #feels #i

Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#bit #his way #i #life #me

I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#beats #body #brain #cooperating #different

I don't have any rift with President Obama at all. I think that he is operating in an entirely different arena than I'm dealing in. I represent my constituents in the Fourth Congressional District. I'm looking out admittedly for much more narrow interests. I represent the fourth-poorest district. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#any #arena #congressional #congressional district #constituents

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect. ↗

— Michael Porter

#companies #effect #operating #ripple #tremendous