#rating

It is the fate of operating systems to become free. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#fate #free #operating #operating systems #systems

While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#campaign #climate #convictions #culture #current

These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#actions #been #emotional #feel #happen

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#back #biologists #capacity #collective #evolutionary

Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating. ↗

— John Engler

#credit #credit rating #industrial #michigan #only

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#earth #like #manual #operating #spaceship

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#dangerous #deadly #forms #kind #liberating

Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#bonds #companies #countries #credit #credit rating

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#below #congress #faith #leadership #lost

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#i #involves #liberating #me #plate