Electronics Quotes

• Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

  Dan Brown

  Lonely, Loneliness, Technology

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Electronics was something I could always fall back on when I needed food on the table.

  Steve Jobs

  Fall, Tables, Needed

  "Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.

  Trip Hawkins

  Powerful, Principles, Consumers

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• We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.

  David Milne

  Batteries, Requirements, Continuing

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• Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

  John Ford

  Winner

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• It looks like a galosh with electronics in it.

  Niels Diffrient

  Looks

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• I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

  Steve Jobs

  Best Friend, Good Friend, Together

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• Consumer electronics is a challenging one.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Challenges, Consumers

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• It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

  Walt Disney

  Communication, World, Limitless

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• You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

  Gary Coleman

  Creativity, People, Brain

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• Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Airplane, Years, Law

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• I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50 years ago, I would have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produce everything I needed with live instrumentalists, so I don't need electronics.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Years, Sound, Needs

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• Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Heart, Night, Brain

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• By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Reality, Eyeglasses, Woven

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.143, Penguin

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• Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Technology, Live By, Player Piano

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.60, Dial Press

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• Transparency is the key to good governance & e-governance is the only effective way of transparent governance.

  Narendra Modi

  Keys, India, Way

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• Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

  Robert Moog

  Baseball, Kids, Beats

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• I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

  Derek Bailey

  Thinking, Stuff, Currents

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• I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

  Josh Klinghoffer

  Interesting, Structure, Chords

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• I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Struggle, Player, Thinking

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• People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Art, Mean, People

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• For mental and emotional health, quiet time is very important to me. I need a point in every day that I disconnect from all electronics and reconnect to my center. I pray and meditate. I drink a ton of water and believe in a good night's sleep.

  Erica Tazel

  Good Night, Believe, Sleep

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• Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists and engineers of a new age which has the power to destroy civilization unless we learn to live by spiritual laws.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Children, Law

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  I think a smart guy can learn. Some guys learn - it's just like all of us - some guys can learn electronics, some of us can't. Some people can learn something else, some of us can't. I mean, we're all wired differently.

  Bill Belichick

  Smart, Mean, Thinking

  "What Bill Belichick Said About Drafting Jordan Richards, Geneo Grissom". boston.cbslocal.com. May 2, 2015.

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• Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.

  George M. Whitesides

  Atoms, Demand, Computer

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