Quote by Jon Gertner

“story was being broadcast over the British radio, and those with hidden transistors were finally learning the tale in tantalizingly vague bits and”

— Tilar J. Mazzeo

“The day of the week on which the tour took place was known to all workers. All devices in its path ought to have…

— Isaac Asimov

“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

From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

A loud booming noise interrupted us, and we saw a flash of light off to my right. People near the other garages screamed. "There,…

— Richelle Mead

“If Checker Charley was out to make chumps out of men, he could damn well fix his own connections. Paul looks after his own…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

“He presented himself at Mr Edison’s”

— Napoleon Hill

“Your eyes flash like Fourth-of-July sparklers, headlights on a mountain road, sparks in a short-circuited toaster.”

— Dennis Vickers

“Kids in my history class pulled out their cell phones and turned them on. I did the same, and as we all lifted our…

— Laura McNeal

“And as they drifter up their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally…

— Douglas Adams

“They pictured themselves dashing around Manhattan, latte in one hand, cell phone in the other, adorably breaking a designer heel while hailing a cab.”

— Gillian Flynn