Transistors Quotes

• The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything was interactive.

  Ayah Bdeir

  Technology, Bricks, World

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• We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Dream, Ideas, People

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• The number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double in about 18 months.

  Gordon Moore

  Numbers, Months, Programming

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• The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

  Alain Aspect

  Roots, Information, Lasers

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• Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

  Gordon Moore

  Technology, Law, Numbers

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• Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.

  Van Morrison

  Radio, Dense, Mines

  Song: Brown Eyed Girl

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• The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food — Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend — the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.

  Langdon Winner

  Country, Civilization, Cities

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• Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Important, Bells, Labs

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• My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

  Robert Palmer

  Growing Up, Track, Pirate

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• One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other.

  Erma Bombeck

  Humorous, Son, Phones

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.497, Open Road Media

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• I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

  Rod Stewart

  Sleep, Radio, Littles

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• I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

  Cher

  Christmas, Aunt, Japan

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• Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project ... a great mass of silicon and ancient transistors and chips and circuit boards ... a machine with lots of networking circuits, in other words, aping-if you will pardon the expression-the human brain in form and function. Of course, AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when we humans were looking the other way.

  Dan Simmons

  Expression, Once Upon A Time, Brain

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• I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us television, radio, microwaves, gave us the Internet, lasers, transistors, computers - all of that from physics.

  Michio Kaku

  Television, Radio, Lasers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.

  Patti LuPone

  Beach, Kids, Voice

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• The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.

  Robert Fripp

  Discipline, Creative, Quality

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• Let the people decide through the marketplace mechanism what they wish to see and hear. Why is there this national obsession to tamper with this box of transistors and tubes when we don't do the same for Time magazine?

  Mark S. Fowler

  People, Wish, Liberty

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• Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.

  William Shockley

  Motivation, Knowledge, Science

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• In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Moon, Men, Energy

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies and capturing people's imaginations. Go back to 1900: That industry was chemistry. People had chemistry sets. In the 1930s, it was the rise of physics and physicists. They build on each other. Chemists laid the experimental understanding for the physicists to build their theories. It was three physicists who invented the transistor in 1947. That started the information revolution. Today, kids get computers.

  Paul Saffo

  Kids, Technology, Years

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• It's amazing. It's actually build from old Siemens Telefunken transistors from the 60ties. There is like 10 in there. It's the most powerful distortion you can have. It does not only do distortion, it does so many weird things. You can't control it, it's sound different all the time. But it's an endless source for fantastic sounds. For example the track "Transit" is entirely made with this box. You have to put the guitar sound in. It's like a pedal.

  Christian Fennesz

  Powerful, Guitar, Track

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• My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Parent

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• Telephones in 2020 will be archaic, relics of a bygone era-like transistor radios are today. Telephony, which will be entirely IP-based by then, will be a standard communications chip on many devices. We'll probably carry some kind of screen-based reading device that will perform this function, though I assume when we want to communicate verbally, we'll do so through a tiny, earplug-based device.

  Josh Quittner

  Communication, Reading, Want

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• My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.

  Stephen Elop

  Christmas, Brother, Play

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