Operator Quotations

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.

I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.

A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.

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.

YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. Video is something that we think is going to be embedded everywhere. And it makes sense, from Google's perspective, to be the operator of the largest site that contains all that video.

On some occasions, we run across an operator who doesn't care.

My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.

No extension should be granted to the city and its operator (Waste Management of Hawaii) because of its abysmal record.

When you call the toll-free number, you're going to get a live operator within several minutes.

When you coach against him, you feel like he's getting all the calls because he's working the refs so hard. It seems like he's always whining to the refs and falling on the ground, and he's got the clock operator in his back pocket. But it's fun to play and coach against Coach Marcum's team, because you know it's going to be a battle.

She is known as a solid operator with strong people and cost-cutting skills.

Should any errors occur, they can be monitored, and answered, without having an operator on site. This reduces support staff costs while ensuring timely and complete backups.

I would say that these are indicative of an operator who wasn't going to let safety get in the way of production.

Functions like night-time attendant were not yet there and there was a limit on the number of calls that could be stacked up for a particular extension. The operator consoles were also a bit primitive.

I am delighted with this appointment. Gareth is a proven operator at a senior strategy and operational level in economic development in Wales and, as chief executive, has provided strategic direction to the WDA over the past 15 months.

If an operator is involved in a second avoidable accident within 12 months, they are required to receive an additional 16 hours of training. Operators who have had three collisions or more within the last 12 months, avoidable or unavoidable, may be required to attend our five-day, 40-hour Refresher Training class depending on the nature of the accidents.

If an operator is undercapitalized to the extent that he can't pay his fines, he shouldn't be in business. You can bet he's skimping on safety.

If an operator puts one in every central office to manage their fibers, then you're talking about a big market: 20,000 COs in the U.S..

I believe we need a fixed base operator if we want to be a regional airport,

Basically, if you see 73 accumulation violations, that's a sign of a mine operator who is not too concerned with safety. It's troubling if you see that many.

What you're looking for there is whether the operator clearly understood the nature and quality of his acts and that they were likely to result in great bodily injury, ... Was he aware of the likely consequences of his actions?

We may find that it's a wastewater plant operator or our parks employees whose pay we need to adjust higher. We'll know that better after we do a significant survey of 10 or 12 cities that we think we should stack up against.

We look forward to becoming operator of this important pipeline, which in the future is expected to play a significant role in moving northern frontier natural gas from the Alberta hub to U.S. markets.

He's been a real smooth operator for us here lately.

Optus are a large business operator and they would probably like to have an association with Telecom NZ for their trans-Tasman business, which they don't have much of,

Our goal is to ensure that in future, every notebook will be SIM ready. This development brings the advantages and pervasiveness of the GSM platform to the notebook market, where this year sales of more than 60 million laptops are forecast worldwide. As 3G network roll-outs accelerate across the world, with additional media rich capabilities added through HSDPA upgrades, laptops with in-built connectivity to the 3GSM world will enable PC users to enjoy the full benefits of seamless access to mobile broadband wireless services with secure authentication. The mobile operator community will benefit from significant market and revenue growth opportunities.

I was fueling a dozer, and the loader operator swung the bucket around and landed the bucket on top of the dozer. It broke the fuel line, and fuel was all over.

It is a co-branding exercise between the operator and the sponsor. For the operator, it spells a greater value service without any loss of revenue, as companies are charged for placing ads on messages sent to subscribers who have opted into this service.

I was a switchboard operator on the first season of 'Mad Men.' I was the oldest and bitterest.

You have people waiting for five or six hours to have a operator come online, ... At least FEMA gave people the opportunity to apply over the Internet.

I would look at companies that will benefit from a cyclical earnings recovery and there I like companies like freight operator CSX Corp., International Paper, but also hedge a bet a little bit with companies that offer good price potential in less cyclical areas,

The 737 is an icon of efficiency in air travel and one of commercial aviation's greatest success stories. We are absolutely thrilled that the world's largest 737 operator -- Southwest Airlines -- is the owner of this historic airplane. Our partnership with Southwest and hundreds of other 737 customers has resulted in continuous improvements to the 737 and its ability to help our customers be successful.

The advantage of UMA for an operator is that they can get to maintain control of their customers.

We continue to believe the acquisition would make strategic sense for Pinnacle, transforming it from a regional operator to a national casino company with an extensive development pipeline.

We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.

This program is a great success. Together with the GSMA and our mobile operator partners, we are enabling over 31,000 new consumers to experience mobile connectivity every single day. This is powerful, not only for the consumers whose lives it is changing, but also for global economies, for our own business and for the mobile industry as a whole.

We are talking to four different casino companies and three nationally recognized retail developers. We have offers from some of them. However, we have not made a decision yet as to which casino operator will be the best anchor for the overall project.

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

The decision to suspend the air operator certificate was based on a review of the company's record and concerns with the company's ability to exercise operational control, including proper record keeping and aircraft maintenance.

We're looking for this to be a world class destination resort. We have not made a decision yet as to which casino operator will be the best anchor for the overall project.

We're going to stick a tree trunk in the ground, with about 6 feet sticking out. The Gatlin gun operator will spray across it several times and try to cut it in half.

We appreciate the contributions that Tamara has made towards growing our base of mobile operator customers and wish her the best in her future endeavors.

We are pleased to be the first operator in Europe to conduct trials in this area with two strong partners.

Big is beautiful in this industry. The widest geographic and product spread in the industry means that the combined entity will be present in almost every operator and will have the most comprehensive offering.

Disneyland in Hong Kong has been a success story in attracting Chinese tourists. People are willing to pay a bit more for something that is run by an overseas operator and has the international vibe.

Customers who make a move to a big telephone company or a big cable operator will do so because they're offering multiple services at a discount, or you can buy a la carte from multiple service providers if one-stop-shopping can't compete on price. Unlike Ma Bell a quarter-century ago, consumers have a lot more choices today and they're growing.

We welcome their entry as a major operator into the rail line-haul business ... I think it's a good move for them and probably good for the industry.

We see an enormous opportunity in the mobile market for data services. The biggest hole in the mobile network operator offering is the lack of guaranteed privacy. Users want to control access to and use of their personal information to avoid the type of trouble the theft of credit data is posing on the Internet.

The operator doesn't have to stare at the screen and guess.

The operator may have believed he was playing on the phone.

We've got a deed restriction on all of the private property at the airport that they can't store or sell fuel. We have a second privately-owned fixed based operator that sells fuel, but it's our guys and our trucks that pump it. They only make a commission on the fuel they sell.

The original operator was mad, but we allowed the second to come on.

We've had some starts and some stops with America Online, ... The way a network operator like we make money is with network traffic ... we just haven't been able to get together.

We've had some starts and some stops with America Online. The way a network operator like we make money is with network traffic ... we just haven't been able to get together.

We live in a customer- service culture. People expect to have their questions answered by institutions, whether it's the local department, the cable operator or the school where their son or daughter attends.

We do not know this tour operator. We've never dealt with this tour operator before.

We are supportive of the transaction because it moves Vodafone closer to taking control of what we believe to be an undervalued operator in a key market.

With technology issues removed from the equation, the e-commerce operator only needs to consider tax treatment, labor costs, and other pure business issues.

With the close of this acquisition, Bon-Ton has become a major player in the retail industry and the second largest regional department store operator in the country. We look forward to realizing the potential of this business combination.

The portfolio is older, but it is well-located. A more aggressive operator could come in and earn a little bit more at the margin.

We are excited to work with TI to continue advancing the mobile gaming architecture. This collaboration will help enable developers to show best-of-breed implementations on an expanding range of Windows Mobile-based phones while enabling them to be more effective in their porting investments. This ultimately brings a wider range of new quality titles to consumers and mobile operator ecosystems.

Actually, I thought our clock operator needed to keep the clock rolling. That should have been the game. I tackled him. The clock should have been rolling for another count. I guess he needed to stop the clock and give them another play.

Colin is better than most people think. He is a solid, intelligent, fighter. He is up against it in such a talented operator as Junior Witter, but it might not just be as one sided as some think.

A wireless operator without enough spectrum is like a body without enough blood. If you don't have enough blood you're going to face major medical challenges. Likewise, the cellular operators will need more spectrum to be able to offer new services and applications.

You're talking about standard operating procedure here in Washington suddenly being turned on its head and a key operator signing a plea agreement that he may have been involved in some kind of public corruption.

Albertson's is by far the weakest operator of the big three (supermarket chains) and is losing share in many of its markets.

Rope baskets are a little bit scary. It's a safe operation as long as everything goes right. If you have bad weather, you have to depend on the crane operator and boat skipper - a lot of people are responsible for your safety.

Right now T.S.A. is the regulator, the auditor and the operator of airport security, ... That never works. It's a total conflict of interest.

Essentially, through one product, the operator can offer three different services here. We've been shooting for this type of integration for some time.

Think of the cable system. You as a consumer have no control over what channels the cable operator picks. They pick certain channels based on where they have a financial interest. Time Warner favors the programming in which it has financial interest. We're concerned that the cable model will essentially be grafted onto the InterNet.

This is out of the ordinary. We took this action because we wanted to get the operator to focus on exactly what could be going wrong.

This is not normal for an operator to have so many incidents in such a short amount of time.

In most instances, the retail location doesn't own the equipment that's operating there. That's owned by a retail operator and there are private contracts between those companies.

In a Sea Rescue Emergency call 082911. The operator will put you in direct contact with the nearest sea rescue control centre to where the emergency is taking place.

I'm the biggest nuke operator in the country, but I have to get the timing exactly right if my company is ever going to build (another) one.

On average, it takes 10 to 15 minutes to find out whether or not they qualify. At that point the operator will keep them on the phone and fill the application out for them. We are trying to make this as easy and as painless for the patient as possible.

Cranes do fail because of deficiency on the equipment or operator error.

I want the company to realize the importance of its mission as an operator of public transportation.

The mine workers look at the pre-shift examination as one of the most important activities that the mine operator has got to perform. We look at that as an absolutely crucial first step of any mining operation.

It's wait-and-see right now. We think Albertson's has not been doing a good job in this market, so we welcome a new operator that would enhance the business. That means more hours and more jobs for our members.

In warm weather destinations, like the Caribbean, Mexico and Florida, advance bookings were very strong and hotels, particularly at the high end, are tight on space. Many popular destinations are sold out for weeks at a time. From an operator standpoint, this is going to be a strong winter. From a consumer's perspective, if you don't have reservations already, you need to get working on that.

But it doesn't provide for other information that an operator would want to have to turn this into a real service, like who can use the service, where they can use it and how they can pay.

By providing content in a new way, we can reach a whole new audience and introduce them to our established brands. This creates demand for our networks and for the broadband service that our cable operator partners provide.

Gateway implied fairly strongly at the analyst meeting that HP is a much weaker operator than they are, and that's possible,

It's a natural partnership. With Kodak, the global leader in imaging innovation, and Motorola, the global leader in mobile design and innovation, we'll forever change the way the world captures and shares mobile images. And by cooperating to simplify and enhance the quality of virtually every aspect of the development and delivery of the mobile imaging experience, we'll be able to bring new value and revenue opportunities to our operator customers while helping consumers by seamlessly liberating billions of photos stuck inside camera phones.

The cable operator almost has a responsibility to give you a tool to better figure out what to watch, now that it's given you all those choices.

The growing age of this fleet, and the lack of an affordable replacement, leads to the need for upgrade programs. The lowest risk and most cost-effective solution for extending the P-3 service life is a re-wing. This approach enables an operator to maintain a maritime patrol presence at a fraction of the cost of a new aircraft. In addition, the customer can have a high degree of confidence in the cost and schedule because entire assemblies are being replaced with new material.

The ham operator will contact the ham operator in the area affected and try and determine where these people may be .

The UK now boasts the highest level of broadband availability in the G8. We are now building on those efforts in becoming the first operator in the UK to commit to a national service which is capable of broadband speeds of up to 8Mbps. Our approach in getting the most out of ADSL technology means we get higher speeds to a national footprint as quickly as possible, making sure the opportunities are not just restricted to urban centers or those providers which operate their own networks.

The company remains the dominant operator in music retail, but its aggressive online promotional stance continues to threaten the company's earnings trajectory.

These guys are the top operator in that industry, ... And certainly, with the Baby Boomers aging, people living longer, the advances in science and health care, we think that Sunrise Assisted Living is doing a great job growing their earnings and the stock price looks good to us for the long term.

For comparison, there was a nation over there and all they had was a grappling hook and a line, ... When they found something they would have to drag it to see if it would blow up. Whereas at the other end of the spectrum, we had the remote control robot that could take pictures and has all kinds of weapons attached to keep the operator himself from having to touch it.

It's the cable operator that has most of the cards.

It's a huge difference in price. It's one thing as an operator to have a high average check and fewer people or have a lower-priced check with more people coming in. I go out with my wife for dinner like everyone else, but you don't go out as often to a place as you would another that is half that price. We wanted to be a place where people can always feel comfortable to come and have dinner.

Astro is the most successful Asian pay-TV operator outside Japan and Korea.

It's just a matter of time. Is that really the principle we want in this country, where the operator of the service is excluding competitors?

We spend a lot of time teaching them about collaboration and in establishing one coaching approach. While everyone has his own coaching style, we want some structure to the coaching. For example, the primary assumption is that every operator wants to work safely. The job of the coach is to work with employees so they work safely. The emphasis is on working collaboratively, rather than dictatorially.

It's a good move for Airbus because we don't have enough space in Beijing now and China Eastern is the first operator of many Airbus aircraft types and has the largest fleet of A300, A310 and A340 aircraft in China.