Google had this one as its Quote of the day yesterday:
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
I've seen many of his "one-liners" that make us all idiots such as:
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The main problem of being a genius is that you have to explain yourself to everyone.
