#operation

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#israel #israeli #lebanon #many #military

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#enemy #face #instead #like #new

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#change #cherish #cooperation #economic #economic change

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane. ↗

— Richard Perle

#assign #commander #computer #could #done

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness. ↗

— Michael Porter

#distinction #effectiveness #fundamental #operational #strategy

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#control #effective #effective way #energy #fact

If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#american #bombing #could #day #daytime

We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#aircraft #allowed #built #few #fifty

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#consultants #day-to-day #direction #experience #get

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ↗

— Bill Gates

#any #applied #automation #business #efficiency