“ Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ”
— Ambrose Bierce
“ People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. ”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“ People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. ”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“ The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! ”
— Noam Chomsky
“ Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. ”
— Thomas Jefferson
“ Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. ”
— Christian Lous Lange
“ The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. ”
— Edwin Way Teale
“ Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another. ”
— Steven Johnson
“ The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday. ”
— Rick Springfield
“ There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it. ”
— Howard Rheingold
“ Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Facebook ID. I think they are very different modes of communication. Commingling them can come with risk and peril. ”
— Brian Acton
“ The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. ”
— Clifford Stoll
“ Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number. ”
— Peter Arno
“ This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem. ”
— Eric Allman