Engineering & Science Notable Tech Quote Archive #35

"For a whole orbit we all had our radios off!" Ed Gibson, Skylab astronaut c1973

3/15/2024

The Theme Music for Mission Impossible Has a Beat of  - -  •• (Morse Code for MI)

2/15/2024

"The world doesn't fix itself. Doesn't set itself up." EETimes' Gabe Atwell re need for field engineers

1/15/2024

"I'm an analog guy. I like knobs more than a mouse." Joe Walsh, Eagles guitarist

12/15/2023

"It's 2023. Every job is a technology job." - Capitol Technology U. motto

11/15/2023

"Today's coffee is tomorrow's coffee." - Saying aboard the ISS re its UWMS

10/15/2023

"'Photo' wants it thick, but 'voltaic' wants it thin." - Michael J. Naughton re efficiency of photo cells

9/15/2023

"Chuck Norris can divide by zero" - Official Chuck Norris Fact Book

8/15/2023

"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." - Isaac Newton writing to Robert Hooke c1676

7/13/2023

"Smart people seem like crazy people to dumb people." - Anon

6/15/2023

"Fair and Open - brought to you by the Safe and Effective crowd." - Anon

5/15/2023

"It's not perfect, but neither are you." - OpenAI founder Greg Brockman re GPT-4

4/15/2023

"Lightning has no sympathy for the feeble electrical schemes of civilized man." - David Heiserman

3/15/2023

"Few people remember the pre-Internet business that Google killed: The Yellow Pages" - Paul Buchheit

2/15/2023

"These days, scientists & doctors will believe anything they're paid to believe." - Anon

1/31/2023

"Rears & Sorebutts: Name Given to Sears & Roebucks catalogs used for TP" - Anon

1/15/2023

"The first rule of antennas is everything affects everything." - Dave Casler, KE0OG

12/15/2022

"Thinking like a customer is not too bad a way to design products." - Bob Pease, National Semi, Pease Porridge

11/15/2022

"Binary Incest: Computer models using other computer model results as input." - Kirt Blattenberger

10/15/2022

"Can AAA deliver enough electrons to get your stalled EV to the nearest charging station?" - Kirt Blattenberger

9/15/2022

"Education degrees should be done away with; we need subject matter experts." - Kirt Blattenberger

8/18/2022

"We started the company in my basement. Because the only place we could go from there was up.”  - Don Shepherd

"We started the company in my basement. Because the only place we could go from there was up.” – Don Shepherd, AR (Amplifier Research)

8/4/2022

"Consider that typewriters had ¢ keys. Computers have $ keys. There's inflation for you." - Kirt Blattenberger

6/20/2022

"Wind and sun energy is never 'renewed,' hence, it is not 'renewable.'" - Kirt Blattenberger

5/12/2022

"Good filters make good neighbors." - FCC Defining Spectrum Rights Presentation

4/14/2022

Remember When ... hourly workers at defense companies were treated like enlisted and salaried like officers?

3/31/2022

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. - Peter DeVries

2/17/2022

Remember When ... larger electronics systems companies had in-house machine & PCB fabs?

1/20/2022

Remember When ... dress shirt, tie, and sport jacket were the uniform of the day?

1/6/2022

Remember When ... ESD wrist bands weren't needed to avoid damaging electronic components?

12/9/2021