A Quote by Joe Strummer

Strummer's Law: No input, no output.

Joe Strummer

Quote Topics

Input Law Output

Quote Author

Joe Strummer
English - Musician
August 21, 1952 - December 22, 2002

One of our favorite Joe Strummer quotes was, "No input, no output." Meaning, we're going to hear a band, we're going to go to a museum, or we're going to go hang out with some writer that we admire. We're going to get some input, because if we don't, then we have nothing. It's a circle. It's a respiratory thing.

Jim Jarmusch

Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists of transactions between the organization and its environment.

Daniel Katz

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

Nathan Myhrvold

Output always equals input.

James Van Fleet

A computer is a machine for constructing mappings from input to output.

Michael Kirby

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

A. R. Rahman

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.

A. R. Rahman

Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output.

Stuart Duncan

Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

Walter Becker

Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output.

Greg Perry

Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical text, one can get an output text which seemingly carries new knowledge. The basic examples are furnished by scientific or technological calculations: general laws plus initial conditions produce predictions, often only after time-consuming and computer-aided work. One can say that the input contains an implicit knowledge which is thereby made explicit.