Edwin Armstrong Quotes

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

Edwin Armstrong

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: inventor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 18, 1890 - January 31, 1954

Topics

MathematicsIgnorancePeopleWorld

I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think we're talking about right now - the pressure to learn how to budget, the pressure to really abandon everything that you ever learned. You don't have a comfort zone anymore. You don't have your neighborhood. You don't have your family with you.

Jidenna

FamilyCollegeComfort ZoneThink

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

John Hawkes

MorningDayWake UpLovedYouNever

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

John McCarthy

ShortMayShelfLivesSuicidal

In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.

Trent Reznor

NailsGuyUsedShotsInchBeen

PayPal came within an inch of being shut down by regulators when they started. The feds seizing the Dwolla account and stealing the money that is owned by Mt. Gox customers is more proof that Bitcoin is the superior payment system.

Roger Ver

MoneyDownMoreWithinSystemInch

When I'm using the Internet, I have 25 tabs open, and even if somebody sends me... something interesting, odds are I'll forget about it, or it'll get kind of lost in the shuffle.

Robin Sloan

MeInternetInterestingLostForget

I've often said there's no such thing as a track record in TV. I seen people who created things much more successful than mine treated like dirt.

Joss Whedon

PeopleSaidMoreDirtSuccessful

Federal spending is atrocious.

Jason Chaffetz

FederalSpendingFederal Spending

One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.

Bruce Lipton

FatEnvironmentMoreFirstTurn

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

Paulo Coelho

FeelingOthersListenBarStarting

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

Rick Perry

BusinessDoingYouDreamKindNeed

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Richard Bach

WinYouOrderExpectMust

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