Favorite Quotes
About RADIO
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and
his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there.
The only difference is that there is no cat."
- Albert Einstein
"If God intended you to be on single sideband, he would have given you only one nostril". -
- Steve, K2PTS
"Morse Code -- One of the romance languages".
- Mike, N9BOR
Albert Einstein
"One cannot solve problems with the same level of knowledge that created them."
"Insanity is the belief that you can get different results by doing the same thing over and over."
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
"When you're getting kicked in the rear, it means you're in front!"
"Americans...judge the value of everything by its size."
Bertrand Russell
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of
intelligence."
"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will
allow a solution."
"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be
honest than a clever man."
"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so."
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching
for evidence which could support this."
"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it
closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it.
If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for
acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest
evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."
"All movements go too far."
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's
work is terribly important."
"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which
move with him like flies on a summer day."
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
George Orwell
"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
HUMOR
"I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government -- I'd give it all up for one erection."
- Groucho Marx
"My memory's not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be". - Bob Cowan
"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
- Richard Feynman
"This week has been worse than a divorce...I have lost half of my assets & I still have my wife"
- Unknown
SAGES
"“The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.”
- Winston Churchill
"This is my most special place in all the world. Once a place touches you like this, the wind never blows so cold again. You feel for it, like it was your child".
- "Doc" Graham (Burt Lancaster) in "Field Of Dreams"
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them".
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things."
- Peter Drucker
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man".
- George Bernard Shaw
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Winston Churchill
"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak" - Paul Wellstone
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
- Oscar Wilde
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire
About RADIO
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and
his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there.
The only difference is that there is no cat."
- Albert Einstein
"If God intended you to be on single sideband, he would have given you only one nostril". -
- Steve, K2PTS
"Morse Code -- One of the romance languages".
- Mike, N9BOR
Albert Einstein
"One cannot solve problems with the same level of knowledge that created them."
"Insanity is the belief that you can get different results by doing the same thing over and over."
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
"When you're getting kicked in the rear, it means you're in front!"
"Americans...judge the value of everything by its size."
Bertrand Russell
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of
intelligence."
"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will
allow a solution."
"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be
honest than a clever man."
"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so."
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching
for evidence which could support this."
"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it
closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it.
If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for
acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest
evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."
"All movements go too far."
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's
work is terribly important."
"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which
move with him like flies on a summer day."
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
George Orwell
"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
HUMOR
"I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government -- I'd give it all up for one erection."
- Groucho Marx
"My memory's not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be". - Bob Cowan
"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
- Richard Feynman
"This week has been worse than a divorce...I have lost half of my assets & I still have my wife"
- Unknown
SAGES
"“The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.”
- Winston Churchill
"This is my most special place in all the world. Once a place touches you like this, the wind never blows so cold again. You feel for it, like it was your child".
- "Doc" Graham (Burt Lancaster) in "Field Of Dreams"
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them".
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things."
- Peter Drucker
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man".
- George Bernard Shaw
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Winston Churchill
"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak" - Paul Wellstone
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
- Oscar Wilde
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire