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Quotes About Signal

Mammoths, building a signal to Mars, on the North American ice cap.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Your body registers the bad vibe before your brain does. It senses the discordant energy and sends you a signal.
~ Sonia Choquette
If hitting an unexpected speed bump with your car equates to the best sex you've had lately, you know your hormones are sending you a signal.
~ Ellen Phillips
Germany. If Churchill imagined, however, that a living Lawrence might have played a signal role in meeting that danger, he was surely mistaken. As Lawrence himself had been trying to tell the world for many years, the
~ Scott Anderson
By popular account, on the morning of June 5, 1916, Emir Hussein climbed to a tower of his palace in Mecca and fired an old musket in the direction of the city's Turkish fort. It was the signal to rebellion, and by the end of that day Hussein's followers had launched attacks against a number of Turkish strongpoints across the length of the Hejaz.
~ Scott Anderson
So neurons talk to each other by squirting electrically charged molecules from the axon of one to a dendrite on another.
~ Sean Carroll
Because deep down you know that this small piece of changing fortune is a signal of things to come.
~ Markus Zusak
Just bad luck. That's what you say. Of no consequence. That's what you make yourself believe- because deep down, you know that this small piece of changing fortune is a signal of things to come.
~ Markus Zusak
Pain is nature's way of telling us that something is wrong. Patiently, pain goes on telling us this, long after we've got the message.
~ Martin Amis
Instead of letting it generate negative energy, we can use it for a positive purpose. We can use complaints as a 'signal' or 'sign,' letting us know we are on the negative road and then in the next moment we can take a detour to get on the positive road.
~ Jon Gordon
We are able to learn, we are innately creative, and we have a remarkable ability to see the signal in the noise.
~ Eric Ries
If banks won't borrow because they fear that doing so might send a bad signal about their financial health, then having a lender of last resort does little good.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Market reaction was positive but subdued. Many traders apparently had hoped for an explicit signal that rate cuts were imminent.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Our goal was to send the markets as clear and strong a signal as possible, while still allowing us enough wiggle room to change course if necessary.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
In the absence of a decision by the FOMC, I could not make definitive promises. But just by discussing the possibilities at length I would send a signal that we were prepared to act.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Lighthouses are more useful than churches.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He had opened the book at random several times, seeking a sortes Virgilianae, before he chose the sentences on which his code was to be based. 'You say: I am not free. But I have lifted my hand and let it fall.' It was as if in choosing that passage, he were transmitting a signal of defiance to both the services. The last word of the message, when it was decoded by Boris or another, would read 'goodbye.
~ Graham Greene
Who is sending the signal? What is the signal composed of? Do the neurons have meetings to discuss who does? How do all the signals going in different directions all arrive at one action?
~ Grant Cameron
Perhaps the major tenet of Pinpoint is that GPS barely exists—not just because the signal itself is so weak, but also because GPS is a remarkably diffuse concept. At root, GPS is just a radio signal, maintained and perfected by a vast infrastructure that is ultimately linked to the United States Department of Defense.
~ Greg Milner
The potential problem with these arrangements is that the exchange clocks, like so many extremely accurate clocks in this world, receive their time signal from GPS.
~ Greg Milner
At ten kilohertz?
~ Gregory Benford
Sometimes a certain project will have a smell... It will have a little stench about it. That is a warning signal. You know it's going to be a nightmare. You know they are not going to like it, and it's not worth it.
~ Mike Patton
Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.
~ Jose Canseco
signal of particles beyond the Standard Model, helping the Higgs decay into two photons.
~ Sean Carroll