Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.
Annalee Newitz
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS ...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each oth... JOJO MOYES My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where ... ALISON BECHDEL If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The simplest way to better the world is one good deed at a time. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place... ANKITA SINGHAL We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows eve... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN We didn't have to tell the kids anything. They knew where they were (in the computer rankings) and t... MARTY ARGANBRIGHT Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider w... RANDY BACHMAN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I w... MARTINA HINGIS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world... JOEL KINNAMAN Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN Back in the 1980s, you could learn how to add memory cards to your PC in a Radio Shack. ANNALEE NEWITZ Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make... TIM MCGRAW I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may. ALEXIS ARQUETTE When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends.... VIVEK WADHWA Our kids sucked it up and played a full game tonight. They hit the free throws at the end like they ... CRAIG OLSON Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it. GEORGIE FAME My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to tal... KARIN SLAUGHTER Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE If everyone decided to forgive at least one person who hurt them by the end of the year, the world w... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE To transform the world, help people, lift others up, change lives. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth centu... ANNALEE NEWITZ Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic... IRVINE WELSH Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES After all of us kids were grown and moved away, Mom and Daddy moved back to where they grew up. It w... FLORENCE BACK I think what we find, especially with the kids that grew up with 'Clone Wars,' when they'... DAVE FILONI If sunlight helps plants grow, imagine what your inner light can help flourish. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they gr... EMILY BETT RICKARDS Radio for years and years looked at the same pool of talent. I always believed there were other peop... SCOTT GREENSTEIN We all belong to the world, and the world belongs to us all. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Status quos are made to be broken. RAY A. DAVIS The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People... DEB CALETTI I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming fro... DAVID ANTIN I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me. LYKKE LI i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were on... CHRISSIE HYNDE Jobs and Clow agreed that Apple was one of the great brands of the world, probably in the top five b... WALTER ISAACSON I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS We felt like we only needed to clear up a few things at the half but we clearly needed to get better... BONNIE ROSEN I grew up when 'Schoolhouse Rock' taught millions of American kids how a bill becomes a law. TIM GRIFFIN In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN I grew up in the labs, and worked very closely with shuttle components, DANNY DAVIS Is this a horrible future? Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past? Think of old v... DAVID BRIN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I grew up in Los Angeles, where long drives on packed freeways make everyone a fan of radio and, par... LEILA JANAH You would find a few organisms that just grew like crazy. We call them 'weeds' because they take adv... BRUCE RITTMANN The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. They needed to find a person who they could target and convict, and he was the person that they manu... KURT ROSENBERG There were a lot of customers who were asking for these departments. They had seen them in other Sam... JUAN JIMENEZ What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save... LYNETTE MATHER We had a ton of trouble in the first half. At halftime, we told the kids they were in great shape bu... JOE MARCHAND They had seen him around during the trip. He was just a local guy in the bar and the casino where al... MARCIA TWITTY Any time you're put in a pressure situation like this and you answer the phone, it's big for your pr... BOB SINCLAIR
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