Google had this one as its Quote of the day yesterday:

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio


US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

I've seen many of his "one-liners" that make us all idiots such as:

The main problem of being a genius is that you have to explain yourself to everyone.

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshir...einQuotes.html

http://www.humboldt1.com/~gralsto/einstein/quotes.html

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...instein+quotes

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. " - Albert Eistein

LOL. The last one left my head in a twist for awhile.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Albert Einstein