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Engineering & Science Notable Quote Archive #2
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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.
Notable Tech Quote Archive
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- "The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like
a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is
the same, only without the cat." - Albert Einstein
- "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity
in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
- "You need only two tools: WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40.
If it moves and shouldn't, use the tape. " - Dave Barry, columnist
- "It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea." - Carver
Meade to his Cal Tech students. "Nobody ignores Carver Meade." - Bill Gates
- "But what ... is it good for?" - Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of
IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
- "Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world."
- Isaac Asimov
- "When persons become part of an electric circuit, the result is often substantial damage
to the human machine." - Dr. Michael S. Morse, Dept. of Electrical Engineering University
of San Diego
- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
- "When small men cast large shadows, it's a sure sign that the sun is setting." - Nathaniel
Lee (paraphrased)
- "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit
on a hot stove for a minute and it seems longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert
Einstein ("On the Effects of External Sensory Input on Time Dilation")
- "The machine does not isolate the man from the great problems of nature but plunges him
more deeply into them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
- Albert Einstein
- "Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you
didn't do more than those you did." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- "The heights by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by sudden flight but they,
while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the truth." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- "All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It's impossible until you understand
it. Then, it becomes trivial." - Albert Einstein
- "Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building
block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is plenty more stupidity than hydrogen,
and that is the basic building block of the universe." - Frank Zappa
- "Half the world have still never placed a phone call." - Ned Barnholdt, CEO, Agilent Technologies
- "But the fact is that cars are hit from the front the most and second most likely hit
from behind, and third most likely to be hit from the passenger side, and fourth most likely
to hit from the driver's side. They're almost never hit from the top unless a tree falls on
them. And they have never been hit by a meteor. We're fixing the meteor problem in computer
security." - Peter S. Tippett
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