The Warner Robins Air Logistics Center will have a new vice commander Monday as incumbent Brig. Gen. Lawrence H. Stevenson steps down. ...

Stevenson admitted that coming to Robins was a learning experience after spending his career as a pilot and commander of flying units.

"This was my first job in this command and I felt like the dog watching television," he said. "I knew there was a lot going on around me. I just didn't know what it was."
—Gene Rector, "New vice commander coming to WRALC," The Macon Telegraph, February 27, 2003

Despite its strengths, the agent-based simulation industry is still ... a nascent industry that cannot provide reliable figures on market size and revenue opportunities. In addition, the simulations can sometimes be a very rough sell. All too often, a pitch to potential clients produces a dogs-watching-TV response. They don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about, says Roger Jones, a former Los Alamos physicist and the CEO of Complexica, a Santa Fe—based incubator for complexity-based businesses.
—M. Mitchell Waldrop, Chaos, Inc.," Red Herring, January 2003

Wal-Mart has 27 [terabytes] bytes of data [on customers and products] now, and rumors are that that may be expanded.

But that's the easiest thing they do. What they really do is understand how to use all those terabytes. They get the big picture. Some of the people who handle data are like dogs watching TV. Have you ever noticed them? They just don't get it. —Roger Blackwell, "Reinventing the supply chain," Computerworld, October 20, 1997