Charles Platt > Quotes

“Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.”
― Charles Platt

“We can laugh all we like at Micromaniacs, but they will have the last laugh - because they are designing the future that the rest of us will have to live in.”
― Charles Platt, Micromania: Whole Truth About Home Computers

“Any man who’s got a big hoard has the right to be first in line, the way I see it. He’s earned it see. Them that have got nothing to their name, well, they don’t deserve nothing, do they?”
― Charles Platt, Garbage World

“The Canterbury Puzzles and Puzzles and Curious Problems. Because they were published so long ago, they are now out of copyright and you can read them freely (and legally) online through The Gutenberg Project.”
― Charles Platt, Make: More Electronics: Journey Deep Into the World of Logic Chips, Amplifiers, Sensors, and Randomicity

“Transistors enable logic gates; logic gates enable flip-flops; and flip-flops enable many mathematical, storage, and retrieval functions in digital computing.”
― Charles Platt, Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 2: LEDs, LCDs, Audio, Thyristors, Digital Logic, and Amplification