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I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers? -- Kurt Fuller
Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays. -- Alex Pareene
Another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, but he had a good excuse. He was watching President Obama's deficit speech. -- Jay Leno
A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world. -- Ray LaHood
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
The reality is that we do not have an air traffic control system that is smart enough and technologically capable enough to be able to handle that kind of demand. -- James May
Listening. Nice idea but difficult to do with constant road and air traffic all around all the time. Please consider getting around by quieter means. Feet, bicycle, horse, it's up to you -- Judith Weir
I have been worried about the future of Mumbai. It is the financial capital, an economic powerhouse that earlier had the highest air traffic, high port traffic, and strong industrial and manufacturing sectors. -- Sharad Pawar
Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth. -- Martin Rees
In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier. -- Hanya Yanagihara
Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity. -- Henry Rollins
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. -- Harrison Ford
You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway. -- Cory Lidle
Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate 'traffic separation schemes,' but mostly, ships are treated like cars on roads where there are rules and codes of behavior, and successful, accident-free outcomes depend on everyone respecting them. As on roads, this doesn't always work. -- Rose George
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. -- Lisa Alther
Weekdays, New York City's financial district bustles with activity. Its streets are rivers of rushing humanity, its air is thick with the sounds of traffic. -- Jennifer Dunning
Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle. -- Kelly Corrigan

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