"If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification."

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Source : "The Chip War : The Battle for the World of Tomorrow" by Fred Warshofsky, (p. 21), 1989.

William Shockley

#Ties Quotes #Fire Quotes #Energy Quotes

“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
“Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates itself, so also does the multiplicity of the appearances of the world have ONE center, which orders and holds everything together.”
“The less judgment the more curiosity, and the more curiosity the more creativity.”
“You must have your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.”
“In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?”
“Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.”
“The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.”
“Don't lose your head over love. I learned a long time ago that those who love you do not understand you, and those who understand you, do not love you.”

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