#telephone

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#child #does #doing #else #every

And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal. ↗

— Steve Case

#cartridge #essentially #game #idea #interactive

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#conversations #cuts #most #observations #own

With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone. ↗

— Bob Graham

#al #capabilities #future #groups #learn

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing? ↗

— David Hockney

#bring #drawing #telephone #thought #who

Gossip is nature's telephone. ↗

— Sholom Aleichem

#nature #telephone

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number. ↗

— Peter Arno

#dreams #me #number #our dreams #phone number

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. ↗

— Paul Auster

#dead #end #night #number #other

What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#another #exception #fax #internet #just

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

#communication #created #development #intellectual #interdependence