My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love…

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

— Stephen Elop

Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.

— Van Morrison

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us…

— Stephen Elop

I have such a crowded life and crowded schedule. When people send me a link with a gadget, I'll look at it and buy…

— Steve Wozniak

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more…

— Robert Palmer

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

— Rod Stewart

“She looked down a slope, needing to squint for the sunlight, onto a vast sprawl of houses which had grown up all together, like…

— Thomas Pynchon

“To its left stood a transistor radio, which was emitting and indeed had been emitting for some considerable time, a symphonic movement of vaguely…

— Edmund Crispin

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really…

— Cher

Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.

— Vin Scully

“You see,” he said, “this little gadget is only a simple-minded cousin of Karl’s—and look what it’s done already. All these machines are beginning…

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— Dennis Ritchie

The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to…

— Ayah Bdeir

“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

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…

— Alain Aspect