Notable Quote Archive #13

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  • "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." - Alexander Graham Bell
    5-15-2008
  • "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you'd better be running." - Herb Caen, former San Francisco Chronicle columnist
    5-8-2008
  • "Imagine flying a jumbo jet more than 500 mph at a height above the ground of less than 0.1 inch and changing lanes only a fraction of an inch wide... This is the challenge facing the control of the R/W head of the HDD." - Kevin Craig, Ph.D., RPI
    4-30-2008
  • "Whenever I opened up an Excel file, I had to wait five or six seconds while the anti-virus program frisked it." - Joe Desposito, Electronic Design, on the bloat of security software
    4-23-2008
  • "The U.S. is the last market in the world that people choose to bring a new wireless product to. Not second or third - the absolute last." - Former FCC Chairman Reed Hunt
    4-16-2008
  • "Business partners are like married couples. They learn what each other's pain points are and keep pressing them." - Ed Kopf, co-founder of BMC Associates
    4-9-2008
  • "The flat-earther corporations pat themselves on the back for having read Thomas Friedman's book and consequently dispatching their customer feedback e-mail to a team of dirt-cheap service reps 10 time zones away from their headquarters. They never have to be troubled again with what their customers need, want, say, or care about." - Joel Spolsky, Fog Creek Software
    4-3-2008
  • "A lot of companies look for people with tons of theory in their head. I like to find engineers with soldering iron burns on their fingers." - Alan Dewey, WB9JTK, JTK Communications
    3-26-2008
  • "Video won't be able to hold onto any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." - Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox Studios, c.1946
    3-18-2008
  • "The main purpose of a PowerPoint presentation is entertainment. Intellectual content is an unwarranted distraction. In preparing a PowerPoint presentation, aesthetics should transcend substance." - A Day in the Life of a Doctor: The PowerPoint Presentation
    3-10-2008
  • "I reject your reality and substitute my own!" - Adam Savage, MythBusters
    3-4-2008
  • "The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up." - Anon
    2-28-2008
  • "The reciprocating piston engine is as dead as a dodo." - Sports Illustrated, re superiority of the Wankel rotary engine, 1969
    2-23-2008
  • "If the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since nothing violent is eternal. It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion." - St. Thomas Aquinas, philosopher, 1270 AD
    2-15-2008
  • "Transistors are the fluke of nature. They get faster when they get smaller, but nothing else does." IBM Fellow Dan Edelstein
    2-9-2008
  • "As the ship turns over, the crew tends to hang on more tightly rather than bailing out." - Anon
    1-31-2008
  • "So much for computers. So much for CAD. I prefer to admit the reality of computer-hindered design." - Bob Pease, National Semi's ardent champion of the pencil and paper simulation method
    1-25-2008
  • "If you have five fighter pilots working for you, you can run any company." - Robert "Babaloo" Richard, EE, USAF test pilot & consultant
    1-19-2008
  • "There were three reasons why we survived. We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan. Every dollar we used very carefully." - Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba.com
    1-14-2008
  • "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" - Benjamin Franklin
    1-8-2008
  • "In the global economy there are but two choices: innovate or evaporate." - Norm Augustine, CEO Lockheed Martin, ret.
    12-25-2007
  • "A hen is only an egg's way of making other eggs" - Samuel Butler
    12-17-2007
  • "A website's primary allegiance can be determined by whether or not it forces visitors to endure a full-page advertisement they do not want to see, prior to permitting them to see what they came to see." - Kirt Blattenberger, RF Cafe webmaster
    12-11-2007
  • "We'd like to thank you in 140 characters or less. And we just did." - Twitter Blog's Jack Ev's speech at the SXSW Web Awards (they limit posts to 140 characters)
    12-4-2007

  • "Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it." - Anon
    11-26-2007

  • "No partial credit! Get wrong answer, bridge fall down!" - former calculus prof of ED's Joe Desposito (re I-35W bridge in MN)
    11-20-2007

  • "...And, of course, we can't change Boltzmann's Constant because Professor Boltzmann is dead." - James Bryant, Analog Devices
    11-10-2007

  • "Stress is just another word for knowledge." - Ratbert
    11-1-2007

  • "In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur
    10-25-2007

  • "Learning to not do what the pointy-haired boss [in Dilbert] does is a pretty fair way to learn ethics." - Bob Pease, National Semi
    10-18-2007

  • "Fools you are... who say you like to learn from your mistakes... I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own." - Otto von Bismarck
    10-8-2007

  • "We just don't have the number of analog engineers we need [here in the U.S.]" - Gerald Smith, CEO of Analog Design Consortium
    10-1-2007

  • "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein
    9-22-2007

  • "Those who give themselves to ready and rapid practice before they have learned the theory, resemble sailors who go to sea in a vessel without a rudder" -  Leonardo Da Vinci