Engineering & Science Notable Tech Quote Archive #35 |
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Notable Tech Quote Archive | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 "For a whole orbit we all had our radios off!" Ed Gibson, Skylab astronaut c1973 3/15/2024 The Theme Music for Mission Impossible Has a Beat of - - •• (Morse Code for MI) 2/15/2024 "The world doesn't fix itself. Doesn't set itself up." EETimes' Gabe Atwell re need for field engineers 1/15/2024 "I'm an analog guy. I like knobs more than a mouse." Joe Walsh, Eagles guitarist 12/15/2023 "It's 2023. Every job is a technology job." - Capitol Technology U. motto 11/15/2023 "Today's coffee is tomorrow's coffee." - Saying aboard the ISS re its UWMS 10/15/2023 "'Photo' wants it thick, but 'voltaic' wants it thin." - Michael J. Naughton re efficiency of photo cells 9/15/2023 "Chuck Norris can divide by zero" - Official Chuck Norris Fact Book 8/15/2023 "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." - Isaac Newton writing to Robert Hooke c1676 7/13/2023 "Smart people seem like crazy people to dumb people." - Anon 6/15/2023 "Fair and Open - brought to you by the Safe and Effective crowd." - Anon 5/15/2023 "It's not perfect, but neither are you." - OpenAI founder Greg Brockman re GPT-4 4/15/2023 "Lightning has no sympathy for the feeble electrical schemes of civilized man." - David Heiserman 3/15/2023 "Few people remember the pre-Internet business that Google killed: The Yellow Pages" - Paul Buchheit 2/15/2023 "These days, scientists & doctors will believe anything they're paid to believe." - Anon 1/31/2023 "Rears & Sorebutts: Name Given to Sears & Roebucks catalogs used for TP" - Anon 1/15/2023 "The first rule of antennas is everything affects everything." - Dave Casler, KE0OG 12/15/2022 "Thinking like a customer is not too bad a way to design products." - Bob Pease, National Semi, Pease Porridge 11/15/2022 "Binary Incest: Computer models using other computer model results as input." - Kirt Blattenberger 10/15/2022 "Can AAA deliver enough electrons to get your stalled EV to the nearest charging station?" - Kirt Blattenberger 9/15/2022 "Education degrees should be done away with; we need subject matter experts." - Kirt Blattenberger 8/18/2022 "We started the company in my basement. Because the only place we could go from there was up.” - Don Shepherd "We started the company in my basement. Because the only place we could go from there was up.” – Don Shepherd, AR (Amplifier Research) 8/4/2022 "Consider that typewriters had ¢ keys. Computers have $ keys. There's inflation for you." - Kirt Blattenberger 6/20/2022 "Wind and sun energy is never 'renewed,' hence, it is not 'renewable.'" - Kirt Blattenberger 5/12/2022 "Good filters make good neighbors." - FCC Defining Spectrum Rights Presentation 4/14/2022 Remember When ... hourly workers at defense companies were treated like enlisted and salaried like officers? 3/31/2022 My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. - Peter DeVries 2/17/2022 Remember When ... larger electronics systems companies had in-house machine & PCB fabs? 1/20/2022 Remember When ... dress shirt, tie, and sport jacket were the uniform of the day? 1/6/2022 Remember When ... ESD wrist bands weren't needed to avoid damaging electronic components? 12/9/2021 |
The number
of statements uttered verbally and/or in print is uncountable. Some are more noteworthy
than others either because of sheer brilliance, good humor, or utter inanity. We
all hope our own remembered words, if any, fall into one of the first two categories
rather than the third. I do a lot of reading and find many notable quotes to use
that fit the theme of RF Cafe; they fall into all three categories. I always try
to verify quotes from original sources or at least from printed books like