Electrical Engineer

Nikola Tesla

Technology

1856–1943

"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."

🇬🇧Rowan Atkinson

Entertainment

b. 1955

"All jokes about religion cause offence, so it's pointless apologising for them."

🇺🇸Carver Mead

Science

b. 1934

"Listen to the technology; find out what it's telling you."

🇺🇸Charles K. Kao

Science

1933–2018

"If you really look at it, I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real."

🇺🇸Seymour Cray

Mathematics

1925–1996

"Interview for the Smithsonian Institution"

🇺🇸Nick Holonyak

Music

1928–2022

"It is electromagnetism in all its many forms that has been so basic, that haunts us and guides us."

🇺🇸John Bardeen

Science

1908–1991

"... I can't work well under the conditions at Bell Labs. Walter and I are looking at a few questions relating to point-contact transistors, but Shockley keeps all the interesting problems for himself."

🇨🇳Jiang Zemin

Politics

1926–2022

"（对翟春萍）One day when we were young.（我们还年轻的时候。）"

🇮🇳Kailash Satyarthi

Social Activism

b. 1954

"I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils."

🇸🇪Hannes Alfvén

Science

1908–1995

"I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation."

🇺🇸Gordon Bell

Technology

1934–2024

"A Broadband Cable for TV is like a sewer pipe that in principle can carry gas, water, and waste: it is easy to get all that shit in there, but hard to separate it out again."

🇺🇸Hal Abelson

Technology

b. 1947

"Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization."

🇺🇸Alexander Graham Bell

Technology

1847–1922

"You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them."

🇺🇸Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Mathematics

1865–1923

"There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions."

🇺🇸Edwin Howard Armstrong

Technology

1890–1954

"The Legacies of Edwin Howard Armstrong" from Proceedings of the Radio Club of America, Vol.64 no.3"

🇺🇸Arthur D. Hall

Technology

1924–2006

"The plan of the present paper is to discuss properties of systems more or less abstractly; that is to define system and to describe the properties that are common to many systems and which serve to characterize them all."