"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, Physiker, asked to explain Radio; quoted from: Albert Einstein Homepage

"Rundfunk, na das kommt von Funk, das hat was mit Funken zu tun, ne? Na ja, und ein Radioprogramm ist eben immer dann gut, wenn's beim Hörer funkt! Is doch so, oder?"

Alfred Schnattelbrock, Farmer near Übbinghausen, Eastern Westphalia, Germany, asked to explain Radio