Engineering & Science Notable Quote Archive #3

Notable Tech Quotes - RF CafeThe 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.

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  • "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes." - Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts
  • "When you are confronted with a hard problem that you cannot solve, there's another problem that you can solve, so go fix that first." - George Polya, mathematician
  • "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein
  • "Aging is the ultimate disease - everyone is born with it, and the survival rate is zero." - Brad Lemley, Discover Magazine
  • "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." - Wernher von Braun
  • "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - Albert Einstein
  • "Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'."

    - Keven Kwaku

  • "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell, "1984"
  • "I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time." - Steven Wright
  • "If the minimum wasn't acceptable, it wouldn't be called the minimum." - George Muncaster
  • “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” -Isaac Newton
  • "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
  • "You know it's made by engineers when it's called 802.11. Only engineers would pick a name like that." - Robert Lucky
  • "A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do." — Greer's Third Law
  • "If NASA had been allowed to continue its Apollo program, the first children born on Mars would be entering junior high right now." - Robert Zurbin
  • "For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and The Government shall be upon His Shoulder: and His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." - God
  • "I wear the chain that I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.'" - the ghost of Jacob Marley
  • "Those who do not mind asking silly questions become scientists." - Leon Lederman
  • "Thanks to the Internet, we have millions of futurists thinking up applications. The Internet has made 'Everyman' the man who knows where to find everything." - Wilf Corrigan, LSI Logic