#phones

Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere. ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#anywhere #between #blur #cell #cell phones

Ah, well! then the young woman was only in advance of the age," said Miss Archer; "and what with that and the telephone, and that dreadful phonograph that bottles up all one says and disgorges at inconvenient times, we will soon be able to do everything by electricity; who knows but some genius will invent something for the especial use of lovers? something, for instance, to carry in their pockets, so when they are far away from each other, and pine for a sound of 'that beloved voice,' they will have only to take up this electrical apparatus, put it to their ears, and be happy. Ah! blissful lovers of the future! ↗

— Ella Cheever Thayer

#technology #telephones #age

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#anything #before #beginning #had #like

I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#consumers #feature #i #i think #phones

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#bite #i #me #microphones #people

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i #like #listen #much #music

We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#around #big #cell #cell phones #come

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#back #charging #constitution #e-mail #getting

I can't hear anything, John. Please, would you put on your headphones? ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#headphones #hear #i #john #please

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories. ↗

— John Sladek

#anyway #either #had #hall #hang