Edison Quote by Hari Kunzru

“Marconi dreamed of a system for harnessing the intangible forces of the ether. Evidence that he did not dream in vain may be found…

— Napoleon Hill

“If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They would be,…

— Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

“It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.”

— Christopher Bram

“Microphones made me feel as if I were speaking to the whole world. I had talked to only local TV stations and newspapers, but,…

— Malala Yousafzai

“How important could the sound it made be, if no one was able to hear it?”

— Michael Lewis

“He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.”

— Marcus Sakey

Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the…

— Edwin Howard Armstrong

“Successive bursts of static came through the headphones, against a background of deep, low-pitched murmuring, which seemed to me the very voice of the…

— Stanislaw Lem

“When you listen to radio you are a witness of the everlasting war between idea and appearance, between time and eternity, between the human…

— Hermann Hesse

“I have since tried out this human-beings-as-nothing-but-radio-receivers theory on Paul Slazinger, and he toyed with it some. "So Green River Cemetery is full of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns…

— Luigi Russolo

“live in sound, always in noise. Perhaps because it is so constant, the art of listening to them falls off, and so many things…

— Gary Paulsen