#telephone

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots. ↗

— James Stockdale

#ballots #becoming #call #candidate #committed

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

#gotten #internet #system #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

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#i #ring #sit #telephone #wait

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#arrived #computer #during #first #first time

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music. ↗

— Tom Waits

#bit #conversation #death #guys #i

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#about #anybody #dial #master #minutes

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