Migration Quotations

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.

There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have existed - it simply would not, because Berry Gordy, the founder of it, his parents had migrated from Georgia to Detroit where he founded Motown, and where did he get his talent?

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S.

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered

The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies.

Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.

We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into Italy. It was the universal belief of antiquity that in Italy, as well as elsewhere, the first population had sprung from the soil.

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

When I got started with this, it appeared that the whole migration was just chaos pushed by weather, totally unpredictable. It turns out you can predict to within two or three days where they are going to be, and they make this migration on the basis of some celestial change.

New measures, similar to a previous outdoor ban for poultry, are being considered because Switzerland lies on the south-north bird migration route.

If we haven't reached a complete resolution up until now, that only encourages us to continue struggling, trying to convince people of the benefits of a migration deal, which is greatly in the interests of the United States and Mexico.

When unemployment went up, unauthorized migration from Mexico went down. When unemployment went down, unauthorized migration from Mexico went up . . . What we're seeing is a labor migration that is tied to employment opportunities, both here and abroad.

Many species face degraded habitats at both ends of their migration flights and the thousands of towers are a new threat along the way.

Siemens' strategy has been very much one of a migration path for those customers to an IP environment, rather than deploying an entirely different technology.

The only mystery here is what took them so long. They've had a bunch of migration tools out there for a long time and they haven't been revised in ages.

Fujitsu is applying advanced process technologies to a set of complex designs that move the networking and communications industries forward dramatically. We are leading the industry in the migration of these processes, first to 90 nanometers and now to 65 nanometers, which generate the high-speed, low-power, high-performance semiconductor devices required by our customers.

Gnutella was once seen as dead so may be off the radar ... It's proof that legal pressure from industry groups results in the mass migration of file sharers to an alternative network, whether old or new. This cat and mouse game will continue.

For Microsoft to get customers to move onto the most current product, they have to make migration easier and have a lot less touch required on the part of IT managers.

But there is a counter trend with new migration into the United States. Particularly from both Europe, the Middle East and Asia. These are people who see manufacturing as an opportunity.

Because some of the methodologies have continued to be improved, I think there will be a migration toward more complex services, ... The envelope will continue to be pushed.

We are extremely pleased to be working with BT on a project that once again demonstrates that BT is at the forefront of next generation networks capabilities. ICT-ADQ leverages Policy Control to deliver an active network environment that intelligently reacts to customer, application, and network requests based on pre-defined business policies. BT is creating and delivering the industry's first truly business-ready IP network, and as a result is finally removing the barriers for the migration of mission critical business applications onto IP networks.

have basically used the legal migration system to their advantage.

We're in the middle of our migration season now where birds are flying. Are they going to bring it back to the Midwest on their flight patterns, we don't know. They're monitoring the birds closely--Alaska is the primary spot where they're watching the birds because it's the closest point where we would see contact.

We make sure the information gets to the Ontario government and Canadian Wildlife Management. Then we get it to the Hawk Migration Association of North America (HMANA).

We may have had a 10th and 11th planet that collided. It's also possible that the outward migration of Neptune scattered comets and small planet bodies, inducing collisions in the asteroid belt. The close passing of a neighboring star could have had a similar effect.

If the applications are more compatible with Vista than 2000, then it might be less costly. Migration techniques have gotten better, but most organizations have not automated their migration process.

Just as railroads and interstate highways shaped development in the past, the migration of knowledge workers will shape prosperity in the future. Cities that disregard this basic fact do so at their peril.

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

It is a new frontier. The migration of video onto the network is upon us, and the rules of that migration are being worked out as we speak.

It is a tangible demonstration of the seriousness of the United States in not permitting illegal migration into the country.

Removing those territories from the migration zone will mean that it will not be possible to make a valid application for a protection visa or temporary protection visa while in those areas.

Overall, the size of the Unix installed base appears to be flattening because of slowing unit volume growth and recent migration efforts within the worldwide Unix installed base. On a unit basis, Windows becomes the top migration platform overall, with 45 percent of these migrating footprints. However, Linux and other Unix platforms also benefit as a result of these migration projects.

Overall, the U.S. labor market is off to a very solid start in 2006 as strong business fundamentals continue to boost employer demand for workers, creating more job opportunities and driving the unemployment rate down to well below 5 percent. Demand for workers in the U.S. remains elevated at the outset of the year, while the online migration of help-wanted advertising continues at a rapid pace. The Index's findings for February clearly indicate greater confidence among employers throughout much of the country, largely due to the underlying strength of the economy. This is encouraging news for job seekers and bodes well for this year's class of college graduates as they begin their search for employment.

I think we will observe a trend of mobile services replacing fixed-line services (in Russia). This trend would lead to the migration of long-distance traffic from regional fixed-line companies to mobile operators. In addition, competition among regional fixed-line operators for generated long-distance traffic will increase.

Under the current economic policies and the situations they're creating, I don't see a drying up of the sources of immigration to the U.S. in the foreseeable future. The basic causes for the migration are still in place.

Migration has slowed appreciably since 2003 and the residential construction market has caught up with the backlog; so the volume of house construction will return over the next eighteen months or so to levels close to those experienced before the migration surge hit.

We have strengthened our mechanisms related to migration so that we make sure that the Mexican territory is absolutely not used by terrorists,

The problem with migration numbers is they come out too late.

We're good at forecasting paths of hurricanes, but we're not as good at predicting intensity and the impact. Take Katrina. There was a massive migration of human capital out of a region. What are the long-term effects?

...we must face the fact that unilateral action on the part of the United States will never be enough to stop illegal immigration. Immigrants come here illegally from source countries where conditions prevail that encourage or even compel them to leave. Attacking the causes of illegal migration is essential and will require international cooperation.

There is a steady migration of recruitment dollars going online, ... Employment figures are trading catalysts but this is a secular growth story, not a cyclical one, so month-to-month employment numbers are less and less relevant.

Traditional carbonated soft drinks have got a tough road ahead. The migration to water and sports drinks and other noncarbonated drinks seems to be permanent.

The overseas migration hasn't affected us to the same extent it has affected the semiconductor distributors.

What we're working on now is that continued migration of those accounts from named into the non-named category.

We have got to stop the approval of anti-immigrant reforms, demand a migration reform that is humane and fair, and not racist.

This will be a big positive because there is a migration taking place from traditional SUVs to something that has the same feeling but is not as big. It provides a destination for all the defectors who don't want SUVs anymore.

There has to be level of end-of-life discussion, and information about architectural decisions and migration paths.

Walls do nothing more than exacerbate the problem. Walls won't stop them (from crossing the border.) They will just push their migration routes to more isolated areas. The Minutemen are distracting policy-makers from the real solution, which is comprehensive immigration reform.

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development.

We acknowledge the considerable work that has to be undertaken by publishers to make the transition to a new structure for their electronic journal content. However, by supporting a common structure for e-journal content we have established a shared international context in which such migration can now proceed.

To move online security to the next level, there has to be fundamental resolve among consumers, government and business to quickly adopt a system where the individual has more control over how information about them is managed and shared. Our aim is to construct an open and widely accessible software framework that puts the individual at the centre of the identity management universe. With this framework in place, it will be easier for society to begin the migration to more secure online environments, where trusted networks can not only be easily formed, but effectively enforced. For in the end, security is not just technological, but social.

We strongly encourage (theater owners) to keep the ads limited in duration and make them entertaining in their own right. We hope there will be a migration toward fewer ads that don't replicate what's on television, because people can't stand that.

Yahoo's branded business should benefit from a combination of volume and pricing growth, driven by the holiday shopping period and by continued migration of ad dollars online.

With the phenomenal recent box office success of films such as March of the Penguins, Winged Migration and Super Size Me, our launch coincides with the height of the documentary genre's popularity.

Either people are going to reposition away from technology and seek a home in the migration away from technology, which is why you have other sectors moving. For those who are tech players, it's going to leave those stocks that may have some concerns over future earnings and it's going to stay there.

They are amazing. This migration is amazing. The whole system has to stay intact, not just the fir trees in Mexico, to preserve these treasures.

The whole point of the project is, you think of the migration of people, the cultural story, or you think of the migration of animals. Our goal is to intertwine those stories. These people came here because the fish came here.

The government has accepted that migration is a fact of life,

As the momentum for on-demand solutions continues to grow, salesforce.com customers are looking for a complete service that makes data migration fast and easy. This migration-as-a-service solution eliminates a common bottleneck for many salesforce.com prospects and customers.

The snook migration has begun, so most of the fish are around the canal mouths.

We will look into the range of problems of the lawful and unlawful migration of mainland people. We will, of course give top priority to the problem of migrant children. It has become very serious.

When we move our customers to broadband, we see a significant improvement in the economics of those customers. The migration component will really be a key driver in stabilizing AOL's membership base.

The reception centre, funded by the British government's Department for International Development (DFID), will help the deported migrants with transportation, food rations, basic healthcare, and information on HIV/AIDS and irregular migration issues, including human trafficking and smuggling.

We will probably learn a lot about bird migration by discovering where the H5N1 virus crops up.

Even to build a vote bank, you need to tackle the problems people face. Rural jobs that stop migration to cities, road networks for better connectivity, and a sense of security get people to vote for you.

With Symantec's support of the Solaris 10 OS on Sun Fire x64 servers, together we are bringing cost savings, seamless migration and flexibility and industry-leading functionality to a broader range of customers.

Family ambivalence inherent in migration is associated with poorer mental health among Latino men. We found that the anxiety can be exacerbated when they are unable to call relatives in Mexico frequently.

American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California

A lot of people who were pacifists or opposed to wars made a migration from Hyde Park and the South Shore in the '60s. They set up centers of opposition to the Vietnam War.

Our aim is to construct an open and widely accessible software framework that puts the individual at the center of the identity management universe. With this framework in place, it will be easier for society to begin the migration to more secure online environments, where trusted networks can not only be easily formed, but effectively enforced.

This tragedy, once again, bears witness to the urgent need for a genuine and effective management of migration issues.

I know there's a lot of speculation, mostly fueled by our competitors, that there's a major migration in the future for our Notes/Domino customers. Nothing could be further from the truth.

In general, elk numbers and composition in Unit 48 exceed our objectives. This year's estimate represents a significant increase in elk numbers over the past several years. Potential causes for this increase include fluctuations in winter weather conditions over the past few years and possible changes in seasonal migration patterns from Units 43 and 44 to Unit 48. We are currently plotting the locations of cows with radio collars to see how they have moved between where they were captured in the summer and where they are now.

Immigration trends are virtually unaffected by spending on border enforcement, ... It means the things driving migration are too big to be counteracted by enforcement.

If you don't have migration you won't be able to fill important jobs to keep the economy going.

Skilled migration has clear economic and social benefits for Australia and the Australian Government has a range of initiatives to attract skilled migrants, especially to regional areas.

As we explain the benefits to the financial institutions, migration will occur.

Sun delivers enterprise-class reliability and performance on an industry-standard x64 platform by offering greater choice and flexibility, especially in the areas of capacity and scalability, which are so vital for our business. Sun continues to provide innovative products and solutions for competitive, mission-critical environments by providing reliable technology for high-volume transaction processing. In an electronic trading environment where every second counts, leveraging technology for competitive advantage is a necessity - not a luxury - for our customers. From our first SPARC-based systems to our recent migration toward Sun Fire x64 servers powered with the AMD Opteron(TM) processor running the Solaris 10 OS, we depend on the reliability and scalability of Sun's systems to meet our requirements for growth and rapid application development.

The adoption of Linux on the desktop will be slow because a platform migration can be expensive and time-consuming.

The (Australian) government is working closely with industry to target the skilled migration programme to help meet the needs of the states and regions, including regional and rural Victoria,

New Zealand is a country with a very diverse population: 20 per cent of New Zealanders were born offshore. Patterns of migration are shifting and there are many more risks at our border.

About 90 percent of the growth we are seeing in Florida is because of migration from northern states, instead of in-state births. The northeastern states are where most of the people are moving from.

As mid-sized North American or European OEMs embark on the strategic global migration journey, or explore their options, they have a whole different experience than do the large OEMs.

Then I saw a design. There on the map...For me, the migration had been to places and moments of glimpsed clarity.

The large influx of ducks into the state since the November survey is undoubtedly due to recent severe cold fronts bringing freezing temperatures and snow to northern and mid-latitude areas of the Central and Mississippi Flyway. Combined with persistent drought to the north, conditions were favorable for waterfowl migration into Louisiana.

The issue is whether it's cheaper to support two operating systems and have lower operating costs, or spend the money on migration. Most companies don't have an automated way to do an OS upgrade, so a full-scale migration would be the higher cost.

The migration path to anything but Microsoft would require a forklift overhaul.

The migration to broadband is happening more slowly for dial-up users in 2005 than 2002. With fewer new internet users coming online these days, the stock of potential broadband subscribers is not being replenished.

The migration to (cheaper) IP is still going through the process. The company is not out of the woods yet and the operational trends are still weak.

The migration to next-generation high-definition optical disc formats is not going smoothly.

The migration to Solaris 10, the most advanced operating system on the planet, is no more complicated than that of the transition HP customers are facing. Solaris 10 has great momentum in the marketplace, including four million registered licenses, a growing community, and broad support for existing applications and systems that can help these customers get the most out of their existing investment.

The (Federal) Government is working closely with industry to target the skilled migration program to help best meet the needs of the states and regions, including regional and rural Victoria,