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Just 20 years ago, 95 percent of our revenues came from wired phone lines. Today, 35 percent comes from voice lines and 65 percent comes from broadband, wireless and Yellow Pages.

Ron Frieson

Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.

Meredith Grey

This could be a crime of opportunity where someone saw it, hot-wired it and drove it off.

Jeff Hawkins

You look at countries like Italy and Spain, which both have low (Internet user) numbers, but Italy could actually be more wired than France.

Nicholas Negroponte

With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.

Theodore H. White

I tell our customers that their goal should be to get their wired networks as secure as their wireless ones.

Alex Thurber

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

Kirk Hammett

We are seeing a surge in wireless network infrastructure in places where it is not convenient and would be very expensive to run a wired network.

Brett Galloway

I think he is wired 24 hours a day. There's no downtime for Bernie.

Joe Stellmacher

This house had hard-wired smoke detectors, as a lot of homes built 30 years ago did. Because there was no power to the home, they were not working.

Investigator Scott Burlin

Any sound that is sustained that we can't explain away is alarming to us. Hearing is our front-line defense for telling us when we are in danger. We're wired up that way, like an animal would be.

Rob Danielson

The person I talked to didn't believe me when I told her I was getting the wrong bill. She kept telling me that the duplex may be wired wrong.

Jim Toth

There's an old saw in the business: If you're not conflicted, you're not wired enough.

Joe Roth

Working with Intel, Nokia, RIM and others, we are unifying a triad: bringing together wired and wireless networks, voice and data offerings, and industry support for Cisco and partner offerings.

Brett Galloway

Both in the case of Wired and the Standard, they didn't turn out the way he hoped. The things he's doing now are very much his things, and he has the ability to pursue them on his own terms, to show what he really can and can't do with them.

Jonathan Weber

I've been playing (hockey) since I was 2 and I dreamed of playing in the NHL since I was 7. I committed my whole life to it until 2000. It's the way that I'm wired. I feel like I belong in a rink.

John Weisbrod

Basically we are descended from a long line of successful flirts and it is hard-wired into our brains. If we didn't initiate contact with the opposite sex, then we wouldn't reproduce, and the species would die out.

Kate Fox

It's about command and control. We can't, in a wireless environment, ever expect to compete in speeds with [wired networks]. The customer these days doesn't care what network they are on.

Richard Lynch

The reason desktop search is so popular is that people can't find their stuff, ... If an IT manager has to choose between one search that works with applications, that has security permissions and rights wired in, versus rogue installations that users have installed themselves, they would probably go to one, organization-wide desktop search.

Sue Feldman

They?re pretty much wired into these kids? heads.

David Stevenson

I have the best weight-loss plan of anybody in the world - get your mouth wired shut.

Mike Cameron

It's well worth it, ... No one brings everything to the table. This really helps us cut to the chase [and see] how an applicant or team member is wired.

Joseph Wise

We needed an infrastructure to support voice, video and data services throughout the entire airport, both wired and wireless.

Lance Lyttle

Network intrusions continue to plague IT managers, making automated security critical to availability and cost-effective management of a network. By reducing the complexity of network management and providing an effective way to identify and contain wired or wireless intruders, we're providing a cost effective way to manage and secure Alcatel and multi-vendor enterprise networks.

Tom Burns

Five to 10 years from now, nearly every recorded song will be stored in digital form on servers, and delivered on demand via wired and wireless Internet to homes, offices, cars and portable devices.

Aram Sinnreich

Mobility is becoming a big factor for businesses. The WLAN will eventually replace the LAN switch entirely, resulting in a much larger network. The mobile edge of the network is much wider than the wired edge.

Keerti Melkote

Fundamentalism is not a phenomenon limited to religion. Any belief system can become intolerant and give rise to violence. Whether one likes it or not, humanity is 'wired' for myth. Mutual tolerance is the only way.

Michael King

It's so extensively wired that you can do anything you want. You can select any space — including the conference room, lounge and offices — to be used with any control room. With the press of a button, automatically all of your queue mixes are instantly designated to the space you're going to work in.

Matt Marrin

Xircom's strengths in small-form-factor design combined with our silicon expertise will allow us to provide customers with new and innovative solutions for linking mobile computing devices to corporate wired and wireless networks.

Mark Christensen

We are delighted that the Piedmont Triad proposal was selected for this grant. The WIRED grant gives us both the financial and technical resources to develop an integrated strategy to restore the Piedmont Triad's global economic competitiveness.

Don Kirkman

Human instincts are hard-wired programming.

William Rotsler

The reason desktop search is so popular is that people can't find their stuff, ... That being the case, if an IT manager has to choose between one search that works with applications, that has security permissions and rights wired in, versus rogue installations that users have installed themselves, they would probably go to one, organization-wide desktop search.

Sue Feldman

Our 3Com wired and wireless solution delivers all the performance, flexibility and ease of use we need, at a remarkably low total cost of ownership. With ample capacity to support our needs both today and well into the future, we're confident of our ability to prepare proactively to meet our community's ongoing healthcare needs.

Mike Baker

It is also a reflection of demand. In a county that isn't particularly wired up, there might not be much demand for a county Web site.

Lee Rainie

When it's far-reaching and international like this, it's hard to track down. The money gets wired to someone who comes in a door and picks it up. Did they give a real name? I doubt it.

Barbara Petito

These practices have been developed through the decades. The iconic photograph of the Abu Ghraib detainee, hooded and wired and standing on a small box, depicts a position known to intelligence officials as 'The Vietnam.'

Jennifer Harbury

I don't think that normal, healthy people are wired to understand this kind of reprehensible conduct.

Kent Williams

The Japanese economy is on the rebound, and e-commerce is set to benefit. In its deployment of both wired and wireless Internet platforms, and their integration, the county will be a model for the rest of the world to emulate.

James Belcher

This school was well wired, well equipped. We lost a ton of computers.

John Wilcox

Versatile was able to achieve revenue growth during that period by concentrating on our core goal of providing mobile solutions that operate in a wired or wireless environment, ... This was especially meaningful as the last few years in the technology sector have been particularly difficult. Our growth is a testament to the commitment of our employees in pursuit of our vision.

John Hardy

We are not wired to bury our children. It was rough. Dick and Susan always will have a hole in their hearts.

Don Ohlmeyer

She and her caddy take it to a very intense level. It's in her character. As much as I'd like to play the way she's playing right now, that's just not the way I'm wired.

Wendy Ward

We've got all these different ages, but we don't have one cohesive notion as to when a young person achieves an adult level of responsibility. Anyone who has a teenager knows they don't possess an adult's responsibility, and there are now studies that say their brains are wired differently than adults.

Scott Chamberlain

Someone pointed him out to me and said, 'That's Mike,' and I said, 'No it's not, that's an offensive tackle,' ... He's a big guy. I expect him to come home and be as wired as anyone.

Juran Bolden

When we substitute wireless for wired connections it's often difficult to know what is connected.

Morten Kyng

In consumer electronics, ease-of-use is essential for users. The USB-IF created Certified Wireless USB to retain the same plug-and-play capabilities as wired USB. The association models spec enables manufactures to build host solutions that will allow one host to connect with up to 127 devices from different manufacturers -- all built on the Certified Wireless USB technology.

Brian O'rourke

People around here are more wired than most people are and understand technology better. So I'd say there's more of a demand for [high-tech] here than at some other parks, ... We actually have had suite-holders ask, 'We do have modem access out of our suites, right?' .

Bill Schlough

We've taken a wall out of one room because the class was too small and we just didn't have enough space. We've brought in all of the furniture that's here. We've just received some new furniture not too long ago. We've had things painted. We've also wired the entire building for Internet access.

Chuck Morton

We want to establish their behavioral patterns before they have Internet technology. Then we can see what happens after they get wired. We can see how their lives and household habits change.

Jeffrey Cole

We've wired it so we can have a computer lab in here as well as a library. We are beginning to compile a library now. Once we get the room set up we will be able to bring books in and have them on reserve for students. Ultimately we hope to have a library. We will have a full service institution down here.

Chuck Morton

During the past several years, the television business is being transformed by technology as digital media and broadband distribution make possible the reception of moving images other than (in) the wired box in your living room. Video games allow people to talk to one another. It's an extension of old-fashioned storytelling.

Peter Price

We tried DSL and those kinds of newer technologies, and they were just not as stable as I need them to be. Fixed wireless also takes away a lot of problems you have in the wired world, where it can take six weeks to put in a frame-relay circuit.

John Threadgill

Wilmer is wired into our audience. His humor, style and approachable personality make this a great fit for MTV.

Brian Graden

San Jacinto is an aging campus. Having a classroom wired with a TV or a projector ---- like most higher education (campuses) do today ---- wasn't (the norm) in the first and second stages of development at San Jacinto.

Becky Elam

Cameras, I believe, are moving from the wired world towards the wireless world. It's not going to happen this year but, starting next year, you're going to definitely see some more cameras coming that incorporate wireless-transfer capabilities.

Fred Lee