amplifier QUOTES

1 " Everything comes down so pasteurized
everything comes down 16 degrees
they say your amplifier is too loud
turn your amplifier down
are we high all alone on our knees
memory is just hips that swing
like a clock
the past projects fantastic scenes
tic/toc tic/toc tic/toc
fuck the clock! "

― Patti Smith , Babel

2 " I've always known that whatever marriage I made would be political. It would be about power, not love. But we might get lucky. In time, we might have both.'
'Or the third amplifier will turn me into a power-mad dictator and you'll have to kill me.'
'Yes, that would make for an awkward honeymoon. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #3)

3 " Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board 'Mentor'. The so-called joy machines were banned on all planets, except under strict medical control; but there would always be people to whom reality was not good enough, and who would want to try something better. "

― Arthur C. Clarke , Imperial Earth

4 " It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.

[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.] "

― William Shockley

5 " The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions. "

6 " I decided to design and build my own stereo amplifier system at age 13. "