#rating

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#good #in my opinion #lot #making #making money

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. ↗

— Robert Trout

#basic #characterized #discoveries #factories #generating

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time. ↗

— George Voinovich

#legacy #liberating #path #peace #prosperity

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. ↗

— Simone Weil

#because #best #ends #great #lives

The gallery is generating work for the masses. ↗

— Kim Weston

#generating #masses #work

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#demonstrating #intelligent #most #stubborn #way

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#disintegrating #entirely #force #formative #liberalism

Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#back #bad #because #bonds #cataclysmic

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#i #just #read #too #until

Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#anything #business #control #disturbing #frustrating