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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires. ↗


— Dave Barry


#believe #bills #cannot #company #electric

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home. ↗


— Jeff Bezos


#appliances #bulb #electricity #got #home

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford. ↗


— Freeman Dyson


#centralized #compact #could #electricity #except

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left. ↗


— David Bowie


#again #be prepared #because #become #better

In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads. ↗


— Stewart Brand


#been #best #comes #disarmament #down

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water. ↗


— Jane Campion


#because #being #cut #early #electricity

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. ↗


— W. C. Fields


#applied #chair #electricity #expert #father

I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer. ↗


— Chuck Grassley


#care #consuming #electricity #farmer #health

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity. ↗


— Samuel Morse


#circuit #electricity #i #i see #instantaneously

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. ↗


— Stephen Leacock


#comes #difference #durable #electricity #expensive






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