Quote of the day
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content … it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
Werner von Siemens
Born: December 13, 1816
Died: December 6, 1892 (aged 75)
Bio: Ernst Werner Siemens was a German inventor and industrialist. Siemens’s name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens. He was also the founder of the electrical and telecommunications company Siemens.
Known for:
- Personal recollections of Werner von Siemens
- Recollections
- Inventor and Entrepreneur: Recollections