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.
"...but even here our ability to manipulate materials at the nanoscale for commercial
applications may come down to serendipity rather than scientific method and design." - Dexter
Johnson, Cientifica
"A general rule: If you are told what someone does for a living and it makes sense to
you -- orthodontist, store owner, professor -- that means he's not rich. But if it's a man
in a suit who does something that takes him five sentences to explain and still you walk away
confused, and castigating yourself as to why you couldn't understand the central facts of
the acquisition of wealth in the age you live in -- well, chances are you just talked to a
billionaire." - Peggy Noonan
"I have found there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them
than to travel with them." - Mark Twain
"In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." -
The Peter
Principle, by Laurence J. Peter
"When I am flying onboard a commercial airplane I want the word 'flap' to be a noun and
not a verb!" - Andy Lanouette, IEEE Spectrum, remarking on his unnerving observation of wing
motion an A-340 reacting to flap extension during landing approach.
"The program itself could earn a good mathematics degree at any major university." -
regarding Steven Wolfram's Mathematica software 1/24/2019
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
"My theory is the tie is simply showing a natural aversion to being near you." - Scott
Adams' reason for why Dilbert's tie curls upward
"The difference between intelligence and education, is this - that intelligence will make
you a good living." - Charles F. Kettering
"The world can't come to an end today because it is already tomorrow in some other part
of the world." - Lucy Van Pelt, Peanuts
"If the semiconductor industry ran on pharmaceutical models...We'd test semiconductors
by building products, device datasheets would appear in 2-point typefaces, and no design engineer
would ever pay for lunch again." - Brad Thompson, T&M World
"Knowledge is power... if you know it about the right person." - Ethel Watts Mumford
"And so it also seems to me superfluous to look for the causes of the motion to the center
when it is once for all clear from the very appearances that the earth is in the middle of
the world and all weights move towards it." - Ptolemy's The Almagest
"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)
RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling
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
while typing up your telephone line, and a nice lady's voice announced "You've Got
Mail" when a new message arrived...
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