Electronics Quotes

“It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should.”
― Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

“I turned and beheld seven rows of plasma screens, each bearing seven vivid scenes, each flickering, each pulsing with a light revealing distant terrors, conflagrations, sufferings - and all thereby brought so close, and all thereby kept far away.”
― Scott Cairns, Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected

“All the electronic devices are powered by white smoke. When smoke goes out, device is dead.”
― Milan Nikolic

“If you see me make sure you say I Don't Do It, U Do It!!!”
― U Do It

“A typical tech toy. High-end this year, everywhere next year, nowhere after that until the antiquarians revival.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Komarr

“The computer agntold scale. It also paved the way for increasing reclusive conduct at work and at home. It is becoming increasingly difficult for us to foster lasting professional relationships when the world clips along at megabyte speed and coworkers occupy a private office or separate cubicle. Prior forms of face-to-face communication are rapidly becoming obsolete. The computer age allows people to participate in a vast network of electronic communication and our escalating dependence upon electronic communications will foster rapid e opened doors to mass communication at depersonalization in the workplace. Some people will be frozen out of regular social interactions and no longer enjoy an uplifting one-on-one working relationship that people instinctively crave.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“With the benefit of hindsight, I would not choose a career that had me working with the various forms of electromagnetic radiation.”
― Steven Magee

“I am probably the most dangerous person that the electrical, electronics and wireless industries have ever encountered.”
― Steven Magee

“Electronics Engineering is hardware, timing diagrams, and algorithms.”
― Bhupesh B. Patil

“Part of being an electrical, electronics or wireless worker is being radiation poisoned by excessive electro-magnetic interference (EMI) exposures.”
― Steven Magee

“I consider myself fortunate that I was an electronics engineer and not an optics engineer, as it was the optics team that was discharging massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the indoor environment at the Mauna Kea Observatories.”
― Steven Magee

“Every time the industry lobbies will resist change, a passionately-insane person will create a technological disruption.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Electrons are a lot like hipsters— if there are too many other electrons in the same place as them, they want to go somewhere else.”
― Amy Wibowo, BubbleSort Zine: How do Calculators Even

“Screentime that is not purposeful tends to be a waste of time and a negative influence.”
― Gary Chapman, Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World

“When you've got your devices down to the ideal number, use these tips to minimize them and prevent distractions:
- Remove as many icons from your desktop as possible.
- Uninstall software you don't need.
- Delete unneeded files from your Documents folder. (If you don't want to delete them completely, at least move them to an archive folder so they don't clutter your most-used folder anymore.)
- Develop a simple but logical folder structure so that you can find documents you want easily.
- Unsubscribe to blogs, email newsletters, and advertisements that no longer serve your interests.
- Delete internet bookmarks, cookies, and temporary internet files you no longer need.
- Delete apps you don't need, remembering that if you need them later, you can always download them again. Put only your most crucial apps (such as your calendar and your phone) on your home screen. Put the rest in folders on your second screen.
- Turn off notifications, including social media push notifications and email audio alerts.
- Make sure your spam filters are working.
- Delete photos that are of poor quality or that you don't need.
- Delete unused music and movies.
- Subscribe to a password manager so that you don't have to keep track of a bunch of passwords.”
― Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

“I was not surprised to learn that Nikola Tesla went crazy!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Electromagnetic emitting laptop computers are among the most toxic devices the electronics industry has marketed to the unsuspecting masses. The last place you would want to put one of these devices is on your lap!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“To stop mutations, we need to stop changing the global environment. That is a hard job to do! So much pollution is being released every year that it is possible we are already in thermal runaway on a global scale. We may already be on the way to being a hot world like planet Venus. Some people think humanity will go extinct in the next century. It is a very real possibility. But global warming is just a small part of environmental change. The global electronics revolution may be a much bigger factor!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Most managers I have worked for have told me I have some of the best technical skills they have seen in an electrical and electronics engineer.”
― Steven Magee

“As much as I dislike utility companies, I do like having electricity!”
― Steven Magee

“Nowadays, Staten Island teenagers are glued to smartphones and huddled in cool, dark hideouts, like albino bats

Nowadays, if no one's posted it online, it's not real”
― Marc Arginteanu, Azazel’s Public House

“Twenge finds that there are just two activities that are significantly correlated with depression and other suicide-related outcomes (such as considering suicide, making a plan, or making an actual attempt): electronic device use (such as smartphone, tablet, or computer) and watching TV. On the other hand, there are five activities that have inverse relationships with depression (meaning that kids who spend more hours per week on these activities show lower rates of depression): sports and other forms of exercise, attending religious services, reading books and other print media, in-person social interactions, and doing homework.

Notice anything about the difference between the two lists? Screen versus nonscreen. When kids use screens for two hours of their leisure time per day or less, there is no elevate risk of depression. But above two hours per day, the risks grow larger with each additional hour of screen time. Conversely, kids who spend more time off screens, especially if they are engaged in nonscreen social activities, are at lower risk for depression and suicidal thinking.”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

“... the primary cause of the increase in mental illness is frequent use of smartphones and other electronic devices.”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

“Be a living electronic circuit. Practice resistance where needed, like a resistor. Preserve energy where needed, like a capacitor. Direct energy where needed, like a diode. And above all, be driven by a purpose, like an IC.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!”
― Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

“Below the display, where you would expect to find number buttons on a calculator, is a large transparent square of plastic. An astonishing array of circuitry and electronics sit behind it - a smorgasbord of transistors, capacitors and other components.”
― Lucy Lyons, The Finding Machine

“Addiction to an electronic world caused the downfall of the MoFos. They'd forgotten to connect with each other, to connect with the creatures who missed them and to Nature as She called for them to come home.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“The day we harnessed electron, was the beginning of artificial intelligence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“The geeks have taken over planet Earth!”
― Steven Magee

“Before you master raspberry and arduino,
learn to master common everyday humanity.
If you're not burning with the fire to do good,
there's no point to your gray's anatomy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets