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Telephone operators have called me 'sir' since I was 6. -- Suzanne Pleshette
Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks. -- Edward Felten
Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community. -- S. Truett Cathy
Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. -- William Gibson
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators. -- Thomas Friedman
To be one of the world's top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn't have much carry-over. -- Chris Hadfield
There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yourself operation. But don't let that deter you. -- Raymond Bonner
We need better options for securing the Internet. Instead of looking primarily for top-down government intervention, we can enlist the operators and users themselves. -- Jonathan Zittrain
And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services. -- Robert McChesney
The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?' -- Xavier Niel
Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' -- Peter Drucker
Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers. -- Gary Wolf
If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting. -- Gordon Smith
If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk. -- Spencer Abraham
But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes. -- John T. Flynn
As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today. -- Paul Hoffman
France has a specificity - the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are French. They had a habit of, let's say, getting along with each other, and the prices traditionally were very high. -- Xavier Niel
Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind. -- Henry Petroski
Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube. -- Niklas Zennstrom
In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to render images into actionable data. But using neural network technology, the company has trained computers to extract that data automatically - and with a level of accuracy that meets or beats human operators. -- John Battelle
Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you. -- Steven Pressfield
The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap. -- John Battelle
I was not a gigantic fan of 'The A-Team' as a kid. I was a huge 'Miami Vice' fan. So for me, not necessarily to say that I put a 'Miami Vice'ish spin on 'The A-Team,' but for me, what I was most intrigued by was this notion of these four guys, these four kind of special operators. -- Joe Carnahan
Telephone operators have called me sir since I was 6. -- Suzanne Pleshette
We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin. -- Thomas J. Paprocki
Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators. -- Abdus Salam
...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button. -- Stefan Kanfer
We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers. -- Deb Caletti
And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services. -- Robert McChesney
In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide. -- Charles Dow
The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care. -- Charles W. Pickering
It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have a feeling that there is a gap in the food retail market - a niche below some of the current budget operators such as Aldi and Lidl. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a risk of developing a 'PlayStation' mentality to killing. -- Philip Alston
The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ. -- John L. Lewis

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