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No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. -- Alan Turing
The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations. -- Ithiel de Sola Pool
Telephone operators have called me sir since I was 6. -- Suzanne Pleshette
Telephone operators have called me 'sir' since I was 6. -- Suzanne Pleshette
Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy -- Eric Hobsbawm
Telephone pole wires get in the way of great photos. Communication always gets in the way of communication. -- Jarod Kintz
Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man. -- Jimi Hendrix
What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman. -- Bunker Roy
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. -- Ambrose Bierce
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time. -- Gary Shteyngart
Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning. -- Rita Mae Brown
I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged cooperative research, offered opportunities for access to sophisticated equipment, and fellowship. -- Willard Boyle
Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times. -- Carson Daly
My decision to come to Bell Telephone Laboratories immediately after obtaining my Ph.D. in 1936 was strongly influenced by the fact that my supervisor would be C. J. Davisson. -- William Shockley
A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory. -- Bill Maher
The funny thing is that even engineers and techs don't know what a tiny telephone connector is - people call them TT connectors. Engineers used to come by all the time and say, "Why are you called Tiny Telephone?" -- John Vanderslice
for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had -- Charles Bukowski
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this. -- Robert Benchley
I stay away from the telephone if at all possible. -- Lee Trevino
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. -- Mortimer Adler
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon. -- Kevin Mitnick
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. -- Chuck Palahniuk
It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television. -- Amy Jo Martin
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. -- Ogden Nash
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
I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work. -- Stephen Daldry
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. -- Doug Larson
Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones. -- Serge Schmemann
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
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! -- Noam Chomsky
There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it. -- Howard Rheingold
Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule. -- Satyajit Ray
Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties. -- Kevin Mitnick
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company. -- Nikola Tesla
I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that! -- Ray Charles
The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone. -- Steve Jobs
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most. -- Joshua Foer
The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded. -- Will Self
The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.' -- Julian Fellowes
I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've written that I think would be nice to set in the '70s or '80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There's nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience. -- Joel Edgerton
Gossip is nature's telephone. -- Sholom Aleichem
All alone by the telephone. -- Irving Berlin
Ever hear of a telephone, asshole? -- Julie James
Happiness is a house without a telephone. -- Gay Byrne
Nobody is listening to your telephone calls. -- Barack Obama
Communism is just one big telephone company. -- Lenny Bruce
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers. -- Ernest Hemingway
If you want to communicate, use the telephone -- Richard Hugo
To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone. -- Jesse Eisenberg
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. -- Clifford Stoll
So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run. -- Edgar Degas
Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory. -- Joan Rivers
I will not be at the mercy of the telephone! -- C. S. Lewis
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. -- Cole Porter
Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone. -- William Gibson
The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette. -- Christopher Isherwood
America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man. -- Ilka Chase
I thought talk was cheap until I saw our telephone bill. -- Henny Youngman
One day every major city in America will have a telephone. -- Alexander Graham Bell
I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring. -- Tony Curtis
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing? -- David Hockney
Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory. -- Sam Ewing
The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life. -- Alex Comfort
Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number. -- Peter Arno
The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart. -- Mason Cooley
When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number. -- Kinky Friedman
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone? -- Walter Isaacson
Argued for an hour on the telephone. now looking at pictures of carbs -- Megan Boyle
I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion. -- Lorraine Moller
[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this? -- Dorothy Parker
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances. -- Robert Staughton Lynd
Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone. -- Rita Mae Brown
Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes. -- Bradley Whitford
Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone. -- Mary Kay Ash
The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent. -- Alexander Graham Bell
I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons. -- Anna Kavan
One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA -- Alexander Graham Bell
He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone. -- Earl Wilson
Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers. -- Ogden Nash
A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones. -- Douglas Adams
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife. -- Evelyn Waugh
Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God. -- Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers. -- John Maynard Keynes
I will take questions from the guys, but from the girls I want telephone numbers. -- Silvio Berlusconi
It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border. -- Viviane Reding
Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime. -- Niels Diffrient
there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day. -- Ursula Curtiss
A telephone cord used to make an excellent leash on people. Now metal chains work better. -- Jarod Kintz
You might be a redneck if your coffee table used to be a telephone cable spool. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone. -- Richard Armour
We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it. -- Michio Kaku
I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone. -- Henry Miller
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. -- Fran Lebowitz
We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch. -- Scott McNealy
The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees, -- Michael Scanlon
I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government. -- Ralph Nader
Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone! -- Andy Kindler
I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at. -- Michael Moore
When my best friends doubt their little black dresses, they call me on the telephone seeking reassurance. -- Andre Leon Talley
No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do. -- Elie Abel
We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch -- Scott McNealy
I only had a telephone conversation with [Donald Trump], whereas [ShinzÅ ] Abe met with him in person. -- Vladimir Putin
There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful. -- Ambrose Bierce
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell. -- Rita Mae Brown
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call. -- Alain de Botton
A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free. -- Stephen Fry
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator. -- Garth Nix
Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone. -- Kevin Mitnick
Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring. -- Marjorie Hillis
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. -- Edwin Way Teale
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. -- Donald Sinden
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you." -- Alexander Graham Bell
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