#electron

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#achievements #concentration #electronics #information #reality

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

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Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#because #capitalist #capitalist society #communications #consist

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#electronic #having #hence #i #images

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#behind #child #electronic #important #improvements

As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#calling #electronic #know #laden #said

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics. ↗

— Derek Bailey

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The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. ↗

— George Crumb

#after #electronically #enormous #general #had

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass. ↗

— Fred Durst

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