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
The Experts Speak, of which I own a hard copy. Enjoy.
"By the end of the decade, a third of a car's value will lie in its electronics
and advanced technologies." -
Bill
Howard, PCMag.com (2007) 9/20/2018
"History is changed by the people who show up." - by the sister of Brian Cody
Prosser, Sgt, U.S. Army, interred, Arlington National Cemetery
"With over fifteen types of foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese
auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big share of the market for itself." -
Business Week, August 2, 1968.
"Television: Something to put on [top of] a radio so that folks can see things
are really as bad as they heard they were." - Morton Thompson 1/31/2019
"I left Earth three times. I found no place else to go. Please take care of
Spaceship Earth." - Astronaut
Wally Schirra, just prior to passing
"Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will
use it, ever." - Thomas Edison
"Profanity is the one language all programmers know best." - Anon
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have
of it." - Thomas Jefferson
"I keep my slide rule around for when the Big One hits." -
Tom Eastlake, engineer
2/7/2019
"Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never
a good idea to put them in the same room." - Scott Adams
"Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted." -
Anon
"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember: Amateurs built the ark. Professionals
built the Titanic." - Anon
"I do not think that this 'transistor' can ever be worth the immense development
cost that has gone into it. It cannot be mass produced and will never be able to
handle more than very small signal levels." - Dr. Thomas James, 1949
"This antitrust thing will blow over." - Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner,
U.S. Office of Patents
"I like to con people... and I like to insult people. If you combine con and
insult, you get 'consult'." - Dogbert
"This test and its results left me puzzled. The front end of my brain was in
total compression." - Paul Schimel, writing in EDN
"Where the calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and
weighs 30 tons, computers of the future may only use 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps
weigh 1 1/2 tons." - Popular Mechanics, March, 1949
"Consensus by all the Titled and Certified authorities at one time was that
the Sun revolved around the Earth" - poster David on weather.com re the global warming
debate
"I can't change the laws of physics." - Mr. Scott, USS Enterprise
"Lost time is never found again" - Benjamin Franklin
"You better hope that we land on the blue part." - William Anders, Apollo
8, regarding whether they would land on the blue or the brown part of Earth as seen
from the moon.
"Switch it on, then off... Don't forget the off." - Tom Cruise in
MI3 , when instructing his wife to throw
a switch to shock him to disable an explosive device implanted in his brain.
"Ah! You see one Earth, you've seen them all." - Jack Schmitt, lunar module
pilot
"The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram."
- Thomas Koenig
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2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed
formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit
design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at
the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps
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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
, when instructing his wife to throw
a switch to shock him to disable an explosive device implanted in his brain.
