#rating

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#allows #between #company #control #could

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#articles #break-up #driving #evening #home

Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#coming #day #each #funding #get

I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#book #client #develop #frustrating #had

When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#depending #different #direction #episodes #few

I - it's simply not for me to evaluate an independent rating agency's processes. But I will say that there was reason to be anxious - absolute reason to be anxious. ↗

— Jay Carney

#agency #anxious #evaluate #i #independent

I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#believe #church #direction #far #gone

Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere. ↗

— Brit Hume

#because #dollars #down #everywhere #expect

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. ↗

— Henry Clay

#competition #greater #human #human powers #mankind

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#began #discard #emerge #enslaved #falsely