Transistor Quotes

#1. The crowd quieted as a whole, but more than one creature cursed under his breath, "Not Regin."
A drunk hunched over the bar muttered, "That glowing one made me eat a transistor radio once.

Kresley Cole

#2. 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

#3. A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.

William Shockley

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

Dennis Ritchie

#5. 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

#6. If you remove a single transistor in the digital computer's central processor, the computer will fail.

Michio Kaku

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Erma Bombeck

#11. My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.

Steve Wozniak

#12. 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

#13. Mankind was on the moon in the 1960s, Jon. That was half a century ago. Nuclear power. The transistor. The laser. All existed even back then. Do you really think the pinnacle of innovation since that time is Facebook?

Daniel Suarez

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

Van Morrison

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

Rod Stewart

#16. My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.

Stephen Elop

#17. Even the impossible becomes possible through devotion.

Sarada Devi

#18. Why be influenced by a person when you already are one?

Martin Mull

#19. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Horace

#20. Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Graham Elliot

#21. It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.
[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

William Shockley

#22. Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Charles Babbage

#23. Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

Warren Rudman

#24. Why? Why don't you want to go with me?"
She huffed. "It's not that I don't want to go with you, it's that I'm not going at all."
"So you do want to go with me."
Cinder locked her shoulders. "It doesn't matter. Because I can't."
"But I need you.

Marissa Meyer

#25. After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

Marcel Proust

#26. We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He isn't maybe running out of patience.

Ronald Reagan

#27. When you learn, teach,

Maya Angelou