James Gleick Quotes

My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.

When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics.

I was pretty sheltered growing up. I just started getting into heavier music with the Tooth & Nail/Solid State era, which really kind of brought this whole thing to life for me, so I am really thankful for that label.

The technology that lets many people use the same radio channel at the same time is called smart antenna technology or adaptive array technology or interference mitigation. This technology uses computer processors to take the signals from multiple antennas at each location and sorts the various signals out so they don't interfere with each other.

In the studio, I don't use an amp, I just go direct into the desk. It's virtually acoustic, what I'm doing.

In 2009, it was the right time to start working in the radio industry.

Radio was always a fun, geeky thing to be a fan of - the history of radio, where it is, and where it's going - but it was really also a pretty easy job.

The radio - this old piece of technology that's still crackingly current - gives you this communal experience in real time.

I do have a little setup at home. I use Pro Tools and a Neumann mic. Neumann's are my favorite.

I use the volume control on my guitar, both for dynamics and as a manual noise gate.

When we started the Allman Brothers Band, there was this great new technology that allowed us to get exposure: FM radio.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.

My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.

The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state, where the corpuscular theory of light may be true, and where light does not always move in straight lines, but where we can never enter, and with which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside.

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.

I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.

Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics.

I'm a believer that satellite radio, whether I'm on it or not, will take off.

If a drink was ice cold, it would be impossible to drink. Because it would be solid. Here's a drink, Mitch - it's ice cold. I guess I could lick it.

Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product of experiment and work based on physical reasoning, rather than on the mathematicians' calculations and formulae. Precisely the opposite impression is obtained from many of our present day text books and publications.

Normally, you would not call ice a mineral.

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

I have not had a moment's peace or happiness in respect to electromagnetic theory since November 28, 1846. All this time I have been liable to fits of ether dipsomania, kept away at intervals only by rigorous abstention from thought on the subject.