#unlike

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#been #built #capabilities #carried #ever

It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing. ↗

— John Doerr

#development #google #growing #had #losing

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#comes #difficult #down #net #question

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really. ↗

— Neil Finn

#because #being #completely #exciting #heroes

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#appendage #assembly #came #criticisms #five

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#benefits #businesses #care #compensation #costs

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#gives #hard #knocks #life #stay

My parents thought all actors were secretly drug addicts, except for Clint Eastwood, whom they admired. But they thought it was very unlikely that I would ever be Clint Eastwood. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#clint #clint eastwood #eastwood #ever #except

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#american cities #assistance #call #cannot #cities

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#appears #beneath #career #during #feet