Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've constructed what we consider a micron-scale analog of an ox, ... These are 'micro-oxen,' a micro-scale beast of burden.

Isaac Newton

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.

Look at the auto industry. Do people fault Jaguar for selling fewer cars than Dodge? ... Opera in some ways is a Cadillac browser. You have a lot of extra features built in. The volume might be with the Caravans and the SUVs, but that doesn't mean there isn't money to be made on the other vehicles. Of course, the analogy here is with Web browsers.

Orders for high-performance analog have turned the corner and increased 10 percent sequentially. As things stand now, it appears that third quarter will mark the bottom for orders, and the floor for revenue should be set in the fourth quarter.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Proof by analogy is fraud.

We ended the year with over a billion dollars in cash reserves, a 21 percent return on invested capital and a stronger analog portfolio. Our goal in fiscal 2006 is to drive gross margins even higher.

I would make the analogy that if my son or daughter had legal problems, I would try to get the best representation possible, and that's the way universities view these firms.

Pat Metheny

When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.

Nick Saban

The analogy that I like to use is it doesn't do a lot of good to buy a condo on the beach that the mortgage is so high on it you can't put any furniture in it. You have no couch or TV. And a part of this process is to be able to inspect that condo and make sure that it's worth what you think it might be worth.

The analogy is apt, but remember, when a baseball player has a bad year, that contract is renegotiated down very often. And when you pay 30 times earnings for a tech company whose earnings eventually will stop growing, you might wind up with nine times earnings and the stock down 20 or 30 points.

Alfred Korzybski

the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero

Rob Enderle

The analogue on the car side is probably Porsche. Because its design is so important to users, it has a lot more impact on the market than its market share would indicate.

Rupert Sheldrake

Well, natural selection was an idea that Darwin developed by analogy with conscious human selection. That's where he got the idea from.

We have expectations that have been hatched under an analog environment that are under the threat of a new form of regulation.

The London equity market is very interested in this space. An analogy with the dot com boom has been mentioned.

An analogy would be when you're scanning the radio dial and you get the same station separated by a small blank space. The size of the blank space is directly proportional to the strength of the magnetic field at the location in space where the station is being broadcast.

An analogy would be using a beach for a school. This land can't be reproduced.

Analog has been around longer, so the networks are much more built out.

Analog Devices makes digital chips that go into cell phones, and there's nothing more hot than that at the moment - you've got cellular phones, which, obviously the world wants to own, plus you've got the chips that go into these phones. These are really the places to be right now.

Analog Devices ( ADI : Research , Estimates ) is like the junior Texas Instrument. Secondary position there, very good analog perspective and a lot of things related to the Internet and cellular phone, good well managed company.

James Gleick

As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene.

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.

Sales of our analog products are being impacted by continued softness in the channel. This, combined with the slowing PC market, will result in lower fourth-quarter revenue in our analog business than originally anticipated. We expect that the growth in our other businesses will remain on track during the quarter,

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.

You're able to perform really complex mathematics and therefore re-generate a different curve that might be impossible to do using analog techniques.

They had to compete and produce revenue from subscribers, so it's not just analog cable, it's digital cable. It's not digital cable, it's HDTV.

O. J. Simpson

They didn't give up. The best analogy I can think of is a prevent defense you're back there, you're trying not to foul, then all of a sudden they're getting better looks than they got when you were playing regular defense.

Chantal Claret

There were no girlfriends, no boyfriends, no family ? it was like summer camp except with analogue equipment and Gil Norton.