#platform

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. ↗

— Brit Hume

#easily #exquisitely #feelings #greatest #greatest things

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#i #interested #java #platform #problem

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#building #cases #cross #desktop #i

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#independent #keep #language #platform #project

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#build #closer #consumers #cross-platform #desktop

Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel. ↗

— James Wolcott

#device #penance #platform #removal #requires

What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients? ↗

— Sarah Chalke

#dark #doctor #does #heels #need

People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#agree #boxing #i #just #like

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#al #chain #dell #global #iraq

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#anything #collaborate #compete #created #ever