Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
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One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The mind however does not actively sort out information. The information sorts itself out and organises itself into patterns. The mind is passive. The mind only provides an opportunity for the information to behave in this way. The mind provides a special environment in which information can become self-organising. This special environment is a memory surface with special characteristics.
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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.
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Although the underlying operating performance in the third quarter met our overall expectations, our fundamentals still need to be much stronger. As we discussed last week with the investment community, we expect to make meaningful progress going forward by simplifying our portfolio, aggressively attacking costs, and increasing investments behind key brands.
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I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.
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The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
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The testing that we have done on systems has not revealed any problems before, so the nature of the noncompliance is likely to be very minimal. It's probably not a feature of the operating system that is used by the application.
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One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
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We believe carefully managing the average age of our fleet allows us greater flexibility in addressing the cost and reliability issues involving tractor engines designed to comply with stricter emissions requirements in 2007 and generally lowers our operating expenses.
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The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and operating plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. There is no more appalling caricature of freedom of thought. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
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Windows 95: 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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UNIX is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus.
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1 Corinthians 12:4:
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.
(NIV)
Now there are distinctive varieties and distributions of endowments (gifts, extraordinary powers distinguishing certain Christians, due to the power of divine grace operating in their souls by the Holy Spirit) and they vary, but the [Holy] Spirit remains the same.
(AMP)
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
(KJV)
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When solving a 'panic' you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system.
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They were forced to withdraw, and as they were withdrawing the men operating the lines sustained burns while making sure the other guys got out safely.
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The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity. The rest is overhead for the operating system.
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I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.
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Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
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Windows 95 and Windows 98, the only operating systems that has the year-2000 bug built into the name.
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Never say oops in the operating room.
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Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.
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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
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