Engineering & Science Notable Quote Archive #20

• "...the rising incidence of autism ...may stem from ...engineer to marry other engineers ..." - Simon Baron-Cohen, IEEE Spectrum
  7/20/2011
• "Making noise [racking your shotgun] will not likely stop an attacker. Lead will." - Guns & Patriots, re home intruders
  7/13/2011
• "If it's been a week or two and I tell you 'I don't have an update yet,' that often means there's a better candidate we're talking to, but we can't tell you that in case they decide not to take the job." – Recruiting consultant Rich DeMatteo, Philadelphia, PA
  7/6/2011
• "The problem with the world is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?" - Anon
  6/29/2011
• "As with Las Vegas, what happens in a black hole stays in a black hole." - Steve Nadis (June 2011 Discover)
  6/22/2011
• "Privacy is no longer a social norm." - Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, (Big Brother agrees wholeheartedly)
  6/15/2011
• "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." - Nobel Laureate Szent-Gyorgyi
  6/8/2011
• "It's really strange when you're an inventor and your whole destiny hangs on a judge's decision" - Raymond Damadian, medical MRI inventor re loss to J&J patent infringement case
  9/26/2019, 6/1/2011
• "To the quantum physicist, classical physics is a black-and-white image of a Technicolor world" - Vlatko Vedral, Jun 20011 SciAm
  5/25/2011
• "How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?" - Linda Ellerbee re wearing of neckties
  5/18/2011
• "All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move." - Benjamin Franklin
  5/11/2011
• "Compared to coal, it is still safer in terms of people killed per kilowatt hour." - Bill Gates on nuclear energy
  5/4/2011
• "There is no Planet B. We all live downwind." Dan Jaffe, Made in China: Our Toxic, Imported Air Pollution, Apr 2011 Discover
  4/27/2011
• "A theory that predicts everything predicts nothing." - Paul Steinhardt, Princeton physicist
  4/20/2011
• "Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do not specify that a witness at trial must be a human." - Robert Ambrogi, Esq., re IBM's Watson as an expert witness
  4/13/2011
• "I know a lot more about you when you walk in the door than you realize. I'll search for you on the web and often use my own personal network to do a pre-interview reference check." – Senior HR Executive in NYC
  4/6/2011
• "From Chip to Whip" - Linx Technologies' antenna sales pitch
  3/30/2011
• "Goodbye... Mr. Smith." - Valery Tokarev, ISS cosmonaut as he launched SuitSat-1 into orbit
  3/23/2011
• "Building a Heathkit was the electronics equivalent of painting a Rembrandt by the numbers." - Robert W. Lucky, IEEE Spectrum
  4/30/2021, 3/16/2011
• "These results, alone, are like geeks at the prom: they need dates!" - JPS & CLM, geological researchers, re lake bottom sediment samples, SciAm
  3/9/2011
• "Radio has no future." - Lord Kelvin, 1897
  3/2/2011
• "Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do the same thing, we'd call it theft. " - Walter E. Williams, PhD. in economics
  2/23/2011
• "Well-informed people know it is impossible to transmit voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value." - Boston Post editorial, 1865
  2/16/2011
• "[Senator Robert Taft contracted cancer and died due to] a radium tube planted in the upholstery of his Senate seat." - Robert Welch, John Birch Society founder
  2/9/2011
• "Would the unit of frequency for 1/30,589 Earth days (orbital period of the 7th planet) be the Uranushertz?" - Kirt Blattenberger, RFCafe.com 4/1/2018
  Original: "Would the unit of time equal to 30,589 Earth days (orbital period of the 7th planet) be called the Uranushertz?" 2/2/2011