Quotes About Transistors

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

Gordon Moore

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

Gordon Moore

#3. I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. If you're in physics, you create inventions, you create lasers, you create transistors, computers, GPS.

Michio Kaku

#4. Carbon nanotubes are amazing because they're really good electrical conductors, yet they are only a few atoms in diameter. You can make transistors out of them in the same way you can with silicon. At Berkeley, we made the narrowest device anybody had ever made. It was basically a single molecule.

Paul McEuen

#5. Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of five trillion bits per second in storage and two trillion transistors per second on the processing side.

George Dyson

#6. The discovery of the Quantized Hall Effect (QHE) was the result of systematic measurements on silicon field effect transistors - the most important device in microelectronics.

Klaus Von Klitzing

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. There was little work left of a routine, mechanical nature. Men's minds were too valuable to waste on tasks that a few thousand transistors, some photo-electric cells, and a cubic meter of printed circuits could perform.

Arthur C. Clarke

#10. To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#11. I was ashamed of my mother, but see, love didn't come natural to me until I became a Christian.- Ruth McBride

James McBride

#12. I don't have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur free of the threat of terrorism.

Henry A. Kissinger

#13. I can't stop thinking about how much better she'd be for him than I am.
But I also kind of want to tear her hair out.

Cynthia Hand

#14. Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.

Larry Eisenberg

#15. Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.

Van Morrison

#16. The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

A.W. Tozer

#17. In my mind, I am free.

Stephen Hawking

#18. That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

Danny Boyle

#19. I'll never forget the way he tastes. It's not anything I can describe, a little sweet and a whole lot of spice, and it feels, in that moment, absolutely right.

Cynthia Hand

#20. The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.

Mark Thomas