Bulb Quotes (page 2)
![Ellis Peters quote: "Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however..."](/pic/164200/600x316/quotation-ellis-peters-truth-like-the-burgeoning-of-a-bulb-under-the.jpg)
![Tennessee Williams quote: "I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude..."](/pic/153825/600x316/quotation-tennessee-williams-i-cant-stand-a-naked-light-bulb-any-more.jpg)
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.
Fred Upton
![Tom Waits quote: "My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My..."](/pic/115722/600x316/quotation-tom-waits-my-reality-needs-imagination-like-a-bulb-needs-a.jpg)
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
Anne Lamott
This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
Steve Jobs
- 1
- 2