"He called it the Magic Carpet, an acronym for “Maritime Augmented Guidance with Integrated Controls for Carrier Approach and Recovery Precision Enabling Technologies.”"
"real knowledge was largely exchanged through social relationships, so we knew we had to connect people socially and get the trust going, so that technical knowledge would be shared.”
"corporate had ordered the engineering team staffed with 50% new college hires. This would keep the engineering labor costs within the funding available."
"أشار ولكنسون إلى أن إمكانية تحصيل العلم والوصول للإمامة متاحة لكل الأفراد - كأحد الشروط الأساسية لاختياره - لكنها في عُمان أصبحت محصورة ومحدودة في عشيرة معينة. وهذا ما جعل العلاقة بين النظامين القبلي والديني لا تكاد تنتهي عبر مسار التاريخي الإباضي."
@TahaniAlhosni
"The second would always generate long pauses and often very interesting discussion: “How do you know?” Very few could answer that one without extensive probing and discussion."
"This futuristic-looking machine is the end product of the most expensive defense program in history, one more costly than the Manhattan Project, Polaris, or Trident."
@thef35
“We can start a different process by replacing destructive competition with cooperation, conflict with solidarity, and tensions with reconciliation. None of us are fully immune to problems that occur in other regions or countries – no matter how far we may be.”
“We will either manage the wind of change, blowing from the bottom, or wait for that wind to turn into a storm & destroy us all. Those are the options on the table – loud & clear. There is no doubt that we have what it takes to reverse this negative situation & to turn the crisis into an opportunity.”