Lee De Forest

“I discovered an Invisible Empire of the Air, intangible, yet solid as granite.”

“What have you gentlemen done with my child, the radio broadcast? You have made of him a laughing-stock.”

“You have debased this child, dressed him in rags of ragtime, tatters of jive and boogie-woogie.”

“While I have accomplished a great deal in my life, I am, after all, a man of humble origins and I have had many struggles.”

“I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may be transmitted on the same carrier frequency.”

“To libel the blatant mediocrity of the upper forty million... is to deal in facts.”

“A man may be a failure in life, but it is a damn sight harder to be a failure in death.”

“The human voice and music are now transmitted to the ends of the earth.”