Cell phone Quote by Steven Johnson

I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.

— Giles Foden

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

Computers and cellphones - which require semiconductors and microchips to work - have become so essential to life all over the world that it's…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

“of the necessary equipment to invent really top-notch”

— Lemony Snicket

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig…

— Clyde Tombaugh

I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe…

— Prince Philip

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

— Christopher Bram

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

— Gerry Mulligan

Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you…

— Robert Moog

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.”

— Kevin Kelly

If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies…

— Paul Saffo

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once…

— Kevin Kelly