#telephone

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#because #dream #graham #greene #i

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 telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#contain #facts #full #idea #single

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cable #distance #facilities #gives #lessen

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#american #american taxpayers #billion #businesses #collected

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. ↗

— Winifred Holtby

#again #built #ceased #death #fortress

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers. ↗

— Sam Wyly

#center #computer #computers #computing #drive

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#because #being #being alone #called #close

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker. ↗

— Les Paul

#i #into #lead #leads #mother

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#advantages #devil #disagreeable #distance #his