Computing Quote by William Shockley

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

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

— Richard Thompson

You can't play bass in a vacuum.

— Roger Glover

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

— Billy Gibbons

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

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

— Harold Stephen Black

In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed.…

— James Gleick

I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.

— Lee Ritenour

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up,…

— David Tudor

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

— Stan Getz

Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and…

— Marshall McLuhan

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

— Ritchie Blackmore