Day 1
Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate
appliance are relieved,
Or not at
all.
-William
Shakespeare
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Day 2
Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit,
appliances and wiring will burn out to
protect fuses.
-Robert Byrne
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Day 3
Give me
a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.
-Gioacchino
Rossini
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Day 4
The new
electronic independence re-creates the world
in the image of a global village.
-Marshall McLuhan
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Day 5
The
human brain must continue to frame the
problems for the electronic machine to
solve.
-David Sarnoff
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Day 6
Others
looked at radio and saw a gadget; his genius
lay in his capacity to look at the same
thing . . . but to see far more.
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
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Day 7
The
Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are
very good at refrigerators and razor blades.
-Hermann Goering
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Day 8
Most
'scientists' are bottlewashers and button
sorters.
-Robert Heinlein
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Day 9
ROPE,
n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding
assassins that they too are mortal.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Day 10
The New
Age? It's just the old age stuck in a
microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
-James Randi
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Day 11
Leftovers in their less visible form are
called memories. Stored in the refrigerator
of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
-Robert Fulghum
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Day 12
Like a
piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must
ride on its own melting. A poem may be
worked over once it is in being, but may not
be worried into being.
- Robert
Frost
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Day 13
I have
a greater appreciation for kitchen
appliances, having played one.
- Anthony
Daniels
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Day 14
The
wonderful world of home appliances now makes
it possible to cook indoors with charcoal
and outdoors with gas.
- Bill
Vaughan
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Day 15
I'm
quitting the business today. I'm going to
open up an appliance store, I've always
really been into toasters. I'm giving it all
up.
- Dane
Cook
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Day 16
I've
just taught thousands of people over the
radio in the USA how to mend broken watches
and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst
or trigger to access these powers.
- Uri
Geller
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Day 17
Virtually any appliance is going to be
online. Appliances will talk to each other
and to the power-generation system. Our
appliances will pay attention to our
preferences.
- Vint
Cerf
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Day 18
To me,
every kitchen appliance is useful and
nothing's overrated. When I look at my
little espresso machine, I don't see coffee.
I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to
make amazing creme brulee.
- Grant
Achatz
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Day 19
The killer app that got the world
ready for appliances was the light bulb. So
the light bulb is what wired the world. And
they weren't thinking about appliances when
they wired the world. They were really
thinking about - they weren't putting
electricity into the home. They were putting
lighting into the home.
- Jeff
Bezos
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Day 20
Modern
man, if he dared to be articulate about his
concept of heaven, would describe a vision
which would look like the biggest department
store in the world. . .
-
Erich Fromm
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Day 21
The
same system that produced a bewildering
succession of new-model, style-obsolescent
autos and refrigerators can also produce
new-model, style-obsolescent science.
- Harvey
Wheeler
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Day 22
There
are probably brilliant people, geniuses,
alive today who don't even know how to say,
"Hello, how do you do?" because their minds
are absorbed with electronic images.
- Beth
Henley
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Day 23
There
are programs for the scrapping of
appliances, but no one thinks about what's
involved in the waste management of
brassieres.
- Sandro
Veronesi
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Day 24
So the
only way we're going to improve fuel economy
or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the
maximum extent practicable is if the
government requires it.
- Sherwood
Boehlert
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Day 25
There
are days when any electrical appliance in
the house, including the vacuum cleaner,
seems to offer more entertainment
possibilities than the television set.
- Harriet
Van Horne
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Day 26
A lot
of us have seen the light, but for many of
us it's on the inside of the refrigerator.
- Marlys
Huffman
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Day 27
We
never talked, my family. We communicated by
putting Ann Landers articles on the
refrigerator.
- Judy
Gold
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Day 28
G new
gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth
more than an immortal work that bores
everyone.
- Francis
Picabia
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Day 29
A
refrigerator runs by converting the dust
behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian
substance.
- Colin
McEnroe
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Day 30
Are
tectonic plates dishwasher-safe?
- Herb
Caen
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Day 31
For
every blackboard there are now hundreds of
new electronic computers.
- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
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