Electrical Engineering

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."

🇺🇸Douglas Engelbart

Technology

1925–2013

"The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better."

🇺🇸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."

🇺🇸Satya Nadella

Business

b. 1967

"We have a lot of work to do. We have 90% of PC share and 14% of total device share. We get that,"

🇺🇸Herbert Kroemer

Music

1928–2024

"Ultimately, progress in applications is not deterministic, but opportunistic, exploiting for new applications whatever new science and technology happen to be coming along."

Thomas Edison

Technology

1847–1931

"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."

Heinrich Hertz

Science

1857–1894

"The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her at our pleasure."

🇺🇸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."

🇺🇸Claude Elwood Shannon

Mathematics

1916–2001

"A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers."

🇺🇸Ken Olsen

Technology

1926–2011

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."

Guglielmo Marconi

Science

1874–1937

"The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 was awarded jointly to Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy"

🇺🇸Edwin Howard Armstrong

Technology

1890–1954

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