Cell phone Quote by Steven Johnson

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

— Dennis Ritchie

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

— Hugh Hopper

“What made Bell Labs fundamentally different had as much to do with antitrust law as the geniuses it attracted.”

— Steven Johnson

My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down…

— Bre Pettis

My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the…

— David Lee

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

— Dave Barry

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000…

— Anonymous

My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony.

— Dennis Ritchie

My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was…

— Anthony Doerr

“In 1958 AT&T, the owner of Bell Labs, was served with an antitrust court order that forbade it to ever enter the computer business…

— Arun Rao

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials…

— Robert B. Laughlin

“The theory of serendipitous creativity, in other words, seems well justified by the historical record. The transistor, we can argue with some confidence, probably…

— Cal Newport