Fax Quotes

• 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

  Special, Telephones, Internet

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• My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

  Maira Kalman

  Book, Light, Fax Machines

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• I can't fax you my love, I can't email my heart.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Work, Heart, Email

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• I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Simple

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• I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head

  Duncan Sheik

  Home, Fax Machines, Progression

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• Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

  Werner Herzog

  Communication, Technology, Phones

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, en.wikiquote.org. 2002.

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• Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

  Denis Waitley

  Asking Questions, Phones, Waiting

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• I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.

  Nancy Reagan

  Art, Writing, Phones

  Nancy Reagan (2001). “I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan”, p.1, Random House

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• I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

  David Tang

  Moving, Ipads, Fax Machines

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• My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.

  Sara Blakely

  Years, Fax Machines, Firsts

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• Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on his answering machine telling him there are none. God and I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun. The factor is me. You remember me.

  Saul Williams

  Stars, Son, Moon

  Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

  Paul Krugman

  Impact, Squares, Law

  "Paul Krugman Responds To All The People Throwing Around His Old Internet Quote" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. December 30, 2013.

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• It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Design, Opera

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• A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Fax Machines, Use, Ifs

  Kwame Anthony Appiah (2010). “The Ethics of Identity”, p.130, Princeton University Press

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• Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.

  Dan Brown

  Humble, My Love For You, Accepting

  Dan Brown (2007). “Digital Fortress: A Thriller”, p.153, Macmillan

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• Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. "I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit here and eavesdrop along with you." "I thought you might sit on the mag," he said. "It's extremely difficult to get soot out of chintz.

  Connie Willis

  Needs, Might, Ancient

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.24, Bantam

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• Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.

  Phil Collins

  Nice, Kids, Tired

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• I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

  Susan Orlean

  Home, Phones, Cells

  "Communication Fatigue" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Running, Phones, Mail

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• Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

  John Sununu

  Yellow, Fax Machines, Digital Revolution

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• The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Fall, Men

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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• You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lonely, Stars, Home

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Real, Rip, Reading

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• She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

  Jodi Picoult

  Phones, Feelings, Email

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. 100 years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.

  James Altucher

  Kissing, Dust, Hands

  "10 Reasons Why You Have To Quit Your Job This Year" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. May 10, 2013.

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