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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds increases its vulnerability. ... choosing his targets, today's saboteur could pollute a city's water supply, dynamite power transmission towers, cripple an airport control center, destroy a corporate or government computer center. -- Anatol Rapoport
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

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