#electron

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#achievements #concentration #electronics #information #reality

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#change #electron #fundamental #ionization #layer

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer. ↗

— John Eaton

#first #i #i think #live #live performances

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#devices #echo #electronic #incorporate #just

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#behind #child #electronic #important #improvements

I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#any #basic #building #business #completely

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. ↗

— George Crumb

#after #electronically #enormous #general #had

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#became #began #civil #civil liberties #electronic

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#global #global village #image #independence #new

The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore. ↗

— Will McDonough

#electronic #future #internet #newspapers #radio