Engineering & Science Notable Quote Archive #4

• "While confidence may be found in silence, truth cannot dwell there." - Dr. Ruth Simmonds, President, Brown University
• "What does God need with a spaceship?" - Capt. James T. Kirk
• "The future ain't what it used to be." - Yogi Berra
• "People think cell phones are mainly digital, but well over half the BOM for the digital cell phone is analog." - Jerald Fishman, CEO, Analog Devices
• There's a whole range of tasks that 10 years ago would be performed only by sophisticated engineers in Silicon Valley that can now be performed by any one of 4 million PhDs coming out of the Shanghai-Beijing region or the equivalent around Bombay." - Eric Benhamou, Palm
• "Pencil and paper, back of an envelope. I do breadboards on things. My applied programming language is a soldering iron." - Bob Pease, when asked what tools he uses to get a job done.
• "If there's a 50-50 chance something can go wrong, then 9 out of 10 times it will." - Yogi Berra
• "I used to say that if you had invested in the paper industry when the term 'paperless office' was coined, you would have become rich." - John Dvorak
• "Mathematicians do not need the infinite, or use it." - Aristotle
• "I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercise." - Neil Armstrong
• "I intend to live forever - so far, so good" - Stephen Wright
• "Saddam Hussein released another audiotape today. Is it just me, or is he like one of those annoying record clubs? He keeps sending us a tape each month, even if we don't want it." - Jay Leno
• "My life is a constant quest for white space in my mail reader folder." - Ted Leonsis, vice chairman of AOL & owner of the Washington Capitals hockey team (receives more than 300 e-mails a day and answers all of them himself)
• "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." — Andy Rooney