Engineering & Science Notable Quote Archive #4

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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  • "While confidence may be found in silence, truth cannot dwell there." - Dr. Ruth Simmonds, President, Brown University
  • "What does God need with a spaceship?" - Capt. James T. Kirk
  • "The future ain't what it used to be." - Yogi Berra
  • "People think cell phones are mainly digital, but well over half the BOM for the digital cell phone is analog." - Jerald Fishman, CEO, Analog Devices
  • There's a whole range of tasks that 10 years ago would be performed only by sophisticated engineers in Silicon Valley that can now be performed by any one of 4 million PhDs coming out of the Shanghai-Beijing region or the equivalent around Bombay." - Eric Benhamou, Palm
  • "Pencil and paper, back of an envelope. I do breadboards on things. My applied programming language is a soldering iron." - Bob Pease, when asked what tools he uses to get a job done.
  • "If there's a 50-50 chance something can go wrong, then 9 out of 10 times it will." - Yogi Berra
  • "I used to say that if you had invested in the paper industry when the term 'paperless office' was coined, you would have become rich." - John Dvorak
  • "Mathematicians do not need the infinite, or use it." - Aristotle
  • "I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercise." - Neil Armstrong
  • "I intend to live forever - so far, so good" - Stephen Wright
  • "Saddam Hussein released another audiotape today. Is it just me, or is he like one of those annoying record clubs? He keeps sending us a tape each month, even if we don't want it." - Jay Leno
  • "My life is a constant quest for white space in my mail reader folder." - Ted Leonsis, vice chairman of AOL & owner of the Washington Capitals hockey team (receives more than 300 e-mails a day and answers all of them himself)
  • "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." — Andy Rooney