#phones

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#about #affect #cell #cell phones #computers

*For eleven years, I've been worked over and abused in ways you can't imagine by things you don't want to know about. I've killed every kind of vile, black-souled, dead-eyed nightmare that ever made you piss your pjs and cry for mommy in the middle of the night. I kill monsters and, if I wanted, I could say a word and burn you to powder from the inside out. I can tear any human you ever met to rages with my bare hands. Give me one good reason why I could possibly need you? *She looks straight at me, not blinking. No fear in her eyes. *Because you might be the Tasmanian Devil and the Angel of Death all rolled into one, but you don't even know how to get a phone. *I hate to admit it, but she has a point. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#monsters #phones #death

So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#business #business community #community #directly #else

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#attention span #cell #cell phones #i #i think

I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#company #filed #i #little #out

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#designed #luxury #owned #people #tax

When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#cell #cell phones #communism #development #devices

I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else. ↗

— Vera Wang

#answered #back #best #businesses #calls

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#cell phones #communication #diminished #e-mails #electronic

Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid! ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#buy #day #i #line #me