Quotes About Amplification

Humans have a talent for escalation. -Death

You make mountains out of molehills.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.

a viral loop with a coefficient that is greater than 1.0 will grow exponentially, because each person who signs up will bring, on average, more than one other person with him or her.

I was acutely aware that any slip would be echoed and amplified, so I limited my participation to delivering my prepared remarks.

Making a robot that simulates what a human does has value, but I'm more attracted to making supertools that dramatically amplify human abilities by a hundred- or thousand-fold.

If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.

If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

It's amazing how much things can get exaggerated.

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

Every film that gets made, and I'm not just talking about 'Star Wars,' I'm talking about Marvel, DC, every tent pole film - they seem to just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. The worlds get bigger, the stakes get bigger.

At the end of the day, you, as the player, create the tone coming out of the amp. The gear is part of it but by no means all of it.

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

Amplification created an entirely new kind of political event: mass rallies oriented around individual speakers.

Depressed people, for example, can start feeling useless and burdensome, as well as grief-stricken and pained. This makes them withdraw from contact with friends and family. Then the withdrawal makes them more lonesome and isolated, and more likely to feel useless and burdensome. Then they withdraw more. In this manner, depression spirals and amplifies.

Nonetheless, people will often accept or even amplify their own suffering, as well as that of others, if they can brandish it as evidence of the world's injustice. There is no shortage of oppressors among the downtrodden, even if, given their lowly positions, many of them are only tyrannical wannabes. It's the easiest path to choose, moment to moment, although it's nothing but hell in the long run.

people will often accept or even amplify their own suffering, as well as that of others, if they can brandish it as evidence of the world's injustice.

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it.

Even little voices should be heard.

I come as one but I stand as ten thousand.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.