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.
"The role of government is not to create wealth. The role of government is to create an
environment in which the entrepreneur can flourish, in which minds can expand, in which technologies
can reach new frontiers." - President George W. Bush
"The slide rule helped to design the very machines that would render it obsolete." - Robert
Ragen, designer of the Friden 130 electronic calculator, in
Scientific American (p87)
11/28/2019
"[Linux] can't be used for serious business, because it would be too easy for employees
of a business to learn to use - and abuse - the source code of essential programs," Hermann
Chinery-Hesse, "the Bill Gates of Ghana"
"These fierce new competitors are ready to engage you, your company and your kids in extreme
competition. They play hardball and dominate their industries. They'll go to the ends of the
earth to employ factory workers for 9 cents an hour and PhDs in science and technology for
$20k a year." Peter Fingar
"And some of us still believe that real radios glow in the dark." -
Ed Mustoe (referring to
tube types)
"I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else." - Benjamin
Franklin
"News is what companies do not want you to know; everything else is marketing." - Loring
Wirbel, EE Times
"Are you going to go to jail over it? No. Are you going to go to court over it? Yes."
- Corey Rosen, referring to companies backdating stock options (ala Vitesse Semi)
"I've never seen age discrimination in consulting. Having white hair or a lack of hair
adds to your credibility." - Bob Gauger, 82-yr-old consultant
"Noise doesn't obey Moore's Law" - Mike Press, RFMD
"The Supreme Court has rules that firing someone based on expense is not necessarily age
discrimination." - Paul Mollica, Esq.
"Shooting down an enemy missile against the backdrop of space is like trying to score
a hole-in-one when the hole is moving at 17,000 mph." - Philip Coyle, CDI
"I read the patent. You don't usually think of movie stars having brains, but she sure
did." - Franklin Antonio, Qualcomm Founder, said of Hedy Lamarr, the “mother of spread spectrum”
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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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
