#analog

Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in. ↗

— Rob Glaser

#analog #comes #cool #got #i

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #libraries #technophobes #change

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#analogous #consciously #does #fact #fictional

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. ↗

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

#inner-beauty #life #beauty

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#humor #science #humor

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes ↗

— Edsger Wybe DIJKSTRA

#computers #science

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#resentment #bad

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#independence #miracle #nationality #physical #political

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#digital #easy #forgot #how #into

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#captures #different #different ways #it is what it is #manipulate