#war

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

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#along #always #author #aware #deeper

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#am #death #end #follow #i

When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#because #comes #enough #free #free software

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#center #change #characters #conflicts #defining

It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support. ↗

— Betsey Johnson

#clothes #heartwarming #just #needing #people

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#came #doing #family #felt #i

The first casualty when war comes is truth. ↗

— Hiram Johnson

#casualty #comes #first #truth

This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime. ↗

— Gary Johnson

#better place #country #crime #currently #enforcement

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#great society #move #only #opportunity #powerful