44 Satellite Quotes for You to Enjoy

A satellite has no conscience. Edward R. Murrow

Technology Satellite Conscience

Next-generation networks are hard to build. It takes a lot of money and effort to lay fiber, install wireless infrastructure, build satellite earth stations, and more. It also requires a reasonably certain business case for deployment, which is all too often hard to prove in parts of the country with sparse population and/or lower incomes. Ajit Pai

Business Money Country Build Fiber Too Earth Stations Case More Networks Lay Install Wireless Takes Also Parts Prove Lot Effort Often Deployment Which Infrastructure Lower Certain Requires Hard Reasonably Satellite Population Incomes

Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility. Alan Huffman

Drive Approaches Synonymous Physically Through Reach Most Terrestrial Within Accessible Cameras Debris Mount Mount Everest Human Which Littered Centuries Video Planet Satellite Even Now Everest Imagery

I think when people see Pluto revealed by New Horizons, its satellite system, its complex surface, its atmosphere, I think they'll have a hard time saying 'That's not a planet' because it obviously will be, and I think most people are already coming to that opinion anyway, but I think that's really going to drive it home viscerally. Alan Stern

Saying Time Home People Will Drive Think Complex System Horizons See Atmosphere Pluto New Most Obviously Because Opinion Revealed Surface Coming Going Anyway Planet Really Hard Hard Time Satellite

Before I had satellite radio installed in my car, I thought I would lose my mind listening to commercials and having limited choices on the dial. Your car is your home in L.A., so you've got to have some good stuff to listen to. Amy Landecker

I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I'm very optimistic about the future. Anne Sweeney

Future Remember Nothing Everyone Broadcast Everything About Cable Remember When Over Dead Said Very Optimistic Happened Then Satellite

If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Barbara Demick

You People Darkness Light East Photographs See Area Look Democratic Korea Curiously Lacking Republic Far Far East Large Satellite Night

For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed. Brian Schatz

Time Month Several Melted More Observation Days Sheet Surface Cover Years July Than Greenland Any Estimated Ice Satellite

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated. Christa McAuliffe

People Remember School Space Thought First Unknown Mars About Russians Still Much Satellite Elementary Elementary School Early

There are certainly some secrets the government needs to protect, but many of the most important clues about revolutions, nuclear transfers, and new military sites can be found online, in open chat rooms and commercial satellite photos. David E. Sanger

Government Needs Important Military Secrets Photos Some About Online Chat Open New Most Protect Commercial Sites Revolutions The Most Important Transfer Clues Rooms Certainly Many Satellite Found Nuclear

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe. Dee Dee Myers

News Phones Internet Cell Phones Every Corner Virtually Television Globe Access Cell Breaking Means Exponential Radio Satellite Now Growth

When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil-A. It offers the word-nerd trifecta: I bring Bose headphones; they provide Wi-Fi and waffle fries. Don Willett

Time Writing Neighborhood My Time Split Between Headphones Waffle Provide Fries Offers Office Satellite Chambers Bring

The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR. Eddy Cue

The Federal Communications Commission licensed satellite radio to be a national-only radio service. Gene Green

Service Licensed Federal Commission Communications Radio Satellite

As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise. George Tenet

Service War Intelligence Thought Nation Past Cold Other Cold War Analytical Our Seven Collection Would Powerful Longer Over Been Years After Expertise Capabilities Depth Many Satellite Technical Rebuilding Need

The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite. James Collins

History You Technology Own Only Point Drugstore Know Look Always Been Pioneers Chain Satellite Application

Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time. James Gleick

We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense. James Turrell

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. Jules Verne

I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music. LaMarr Woodley

Music Good Morning Listening Good Music Heat Satellite Plays

SiriusXM has been an unbelievable way for us to share music. Songs move a lot faster there than they do on terrestrial, so hopefully we can continue to partner with satellite radio as a way to share as much music as possible with our fans. Matthew Ramsey

You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country? Patricia Marx

Time You Culture Architecture Country Building Before Mimic Nine Spend About Shanghai Towns Know Existential Authenticity Get Did Different Meaning Meaning Of Much Satellite Each Designed Start

The satellite and digital space is where the audience for 'Cabaret' lies: a discerning lot who don't rush to the cinema hall on the first day, first show, and prefer instead to consume their entertainment at their time and comfort. Pooja Bhatt

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