Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Scholz

Analog sounds so much better. I frankly can't listen to digital audio for more than a few hours without really starting to hate what I'm listening to. Even decent 24-bit digital resolution really irritates me after a while.

Tom Lehrer

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

We're an entrainment company, so content is prime and we want to preserve the quality of the programming. As this is satellite radio, not analogue radio, you do have some limitations, but we felt that 50 hours of recordable capability went a long way to satisfying demand.

John Deacon

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

Antonin Artaud

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Proof by analogy is fraud.

With the MCP4011, MCP4012, MCP4013, and MCP4014 digital potentiometers, Microchip continues to provide industry-leading, low-power analog products. These devices deliver the small package size and low power consumption that designers need for their applications, at a great value.

We like Analog Devices Ê( ADI : Research , Estimates ) because it's a leading company in the analog segment of the semiconductor industry -- and the analog segment I think this cycle is looking better than it's ever been because of the proliferation of the devices other than PCs. So Analog is riding on that curve. They're the fastest-growing analog company in the last several quarters, and it also has better margin than it ever had in its history, as a public company.

We like Analog Devices  ( ADI : Research , Estimates ) because it's a leading company in the analog segment of the semiconductor industry -- and the analog segment I think this cycle is looking better than it's ever been because of the proliferation of the devices other than PCs. So Analog is riding on that curve. They're the fastest-growing analog company in the last several quarters, and it also has better margin than it ever had in its history, as a public company.

We're in the analog business, and analog is what's driving all the displays, and audio, and battery life in wireless. Wireless is clearly our biggest segment, and we plan on this market doing exactly what it's been doing for the last three and a half years.

Anton Corbijn

Analog is more beautiful than digital, really, but we go for comfort.

Their world is an analog world; it isn't digital. Electronic media of the future is clearly going to be digital. So you need to have digital in your DNA.

It will be interesting to see what kind of announcement they make prior to the day they shut analog off.

It will limit the success if they're not materially better than the current-generation games. The analogy is, do you buy a new PC if you don't have a reason to? You just don't do it.

We tested our model using known flow parameters and environmental conditions of perennial saline springs in the Mars analog environment of the Canadian High Arctic.

This is why the Internet-phone industry is probably going to replace entirely what we might call loosely the analog method of phone calls over a period of years.

In terms of his behavior, you can make that direct analogy about his political style.

If you take a regular analog channel, go to 31, all you see is noise. It's really the digital picture, but it looks like noise.

I don't know how much credit I can take for him. He has a very wide range of skills. There's an old analogy that you can do lots of jobs with a hammer and a screwdriver, but it's better to have a few more tools in the box. Dan seems to have a full tool box.

I like to use the analogy of going to the gym. If you go to the gym and your goal is, 'I want to look just like David Beckham,' then that drives you to do certain things. You may never look like Beckham, but it is a goal. Cities need the same thing. They need a vision and a plan for their ideal physique.

Teju Cole

In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

I personally think the 1992 analogy has been overdone.

Cable operators all around the country are trying to migrate their customers to digital so eventually . . . they can reclaim some of that analog bandwidth.

But it has nothing to do with the analogy I was making.

Business conditions were stronger than we had originally anticipated. We reached our interim goal of 60 percent gross margin earlier than we expected and at the same time continued to gain market share in the analog standard linear market.

Tom Hamilton

First silicon of our analog UWB chip stands as the culmination of a tremendous engineering effort. Receiving this chip on time for validation testing is a major step toward UWB commercialization. We look forward to receiving our digital chip and shipping evaluation kits to our customers.

Chris Cooper

First, we considered hybrid systems, but we found that many of those vendors were simply trying to put an IP mask over an analog system.

Based on a composite of analyses, we are usually able to identify four or five analog years that had similar conditions during the first several months of the year, which helps us predict what the weather may be like in the fall and winter,

As the build-out of broadband to the home gains momentum, our revenue from digital subscriber line and cable modem markets is rapidly moving toward critical mass, ... Our growth in wireless handsets is now being complemented by growth in an array of communications infrastructure equipment that use our catalog DSP and analog products.

At the moment, we have more opportunities than engineers. The right staff have ample chance not only to exploit their core skill of digital or analogue circuit design, but also to get involved with the wider mixed-signal IC team to integrate the various circuit elements, to verify and test the design, and bring the complete solution to market.

Digital intermediate technology provides the ultimate process for analog to digital restoration for both television and film libraries as it produces a single master file, enabling extraction and archival of all current, as well as future formats including internet and video on demand offerings. Use of digital intermediate technology rather than High Definition mastering for archival restoration also prevents the need for future restorations and further expenditures by our clients, helping to position Hollywood Intermediate to be a leader in end-to-end digital intermediate solutions.

Digital intermediate technology can provide the ultimate process for analog to digital restoration for both television and film libraries as it produces a single master file, enabling extraction and archival of all current, as well as future formats including internet and video on demand offerings. Use of digital intermediate technology rather than High Definition mastering for archival restoration also prevents the need for future restorations and further expenditures by our clients, helping to position Hollywood Intermediate to be a leader in end-to-end digital intermediate solutions.