Microchips Quotes

• It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Funny Inspirational, Memorable, Long Ago

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.191, Northwestern University Press

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• We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.

  Grant Morrison

  Children, Reality, Doctors

  "The Invisibles". Comic book series by Grant Morrison, Volume 3, issue #04, The Invisible Kingdom, Part 1: Planet Stepford, 1994-2000.

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• One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet

  Dave Barry

  Technology, Hair, One Day

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• We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

  Emilio Estevez

  Technology, Elements, Earth

  "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms". Interview With Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.

  Freeman Dyson

  Country, Science, Technology

  "Infinite in All Directions: Gifford lectures given at Aberdeen" by Freeman Dyson, (p. 270), 2004.

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• It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

  Howard Rheingold

  Teenager, Entering, World

  "Is That a Computer in Your Pants?". Interview with Jesse Walker, reason.com. April 1, 2003.

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• The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens.

  Immortal Technique

  Dark, Moon, Age

  Song: The Point Of No Return

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• In Gillette's case, they keep surfing along new technology which is fairly simple by the standards of microchips. But it's hard for competitors to do. So they've been able to stay constantly near the edge of improvements in shaving.

  Charlie Munger

  Technology, Simple, Surfing

  "A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom as it Relates to Investment Management and Business". Charlie Munger's lecture to the students at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 1994.

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