<= Previous | January Issues Index | Next =>
Quotes of the Day for 27 January 2005 - Recording

The first tape recorder was sold on this day in 1948, a Soundmirror offered by the Brush Development Company. Considering the generations of recording media we've seen in recent years, it seems hard to believe that tape is only a few years older than I am. But recording various parts of life has been with us for a long time, sometimes with humorous results.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
     - Virginia Woolf, 1882 - 1941

I'd give Charles Darwin videotapes of 'Geraldo', 'Beavis and Butt-head', and 'The McLaughlin Group'. I would be interested in seeing if he still believes in evolution.
     - Dean Koontz

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
     - Dr Warren Jackson

I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
     - Richard M. Nixon, 1913 - 1994

Life is life, this was just a record.
     - Ringo Starr

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and [the] fragments of stupidity.
     - Vartan Gregorian

Would you like to see quotes like these in your mail tomorrow morning? Our 10,000 loyal subscribers hate to miss a day, perhaps you should sign up now! No cost or obligation, just be open to the enlightenment waiting for you among our 22,500+ quotes.