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• Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.

  Scott McNealy

  Phones, Light, Use

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• We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

  Scott McNealy

  Thinking, Light, Water

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• You might be a redneck if your coffee table used to be a telephone cable spool.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Coffee, Redneck, Tables

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• It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.

  Meryl Streep

  Fun, People, Different

  "Meryl Streep: The Fresh Air Interview". wutc.org. February 6, 2012.

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• Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!

  Andy Kindler

  Bells, Firsts, Hello

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• My uncle was the first one in my family to get a telephone. It was like going to the moon. He came running over to tell us, and we were so proud. A telephone! We didn't have to go to the candy store to phone any more. We went around telling everyone. But we didn't hear from my uncle for three days, so my father got worried. He said, Let's go over there. We got there, and my uncle was very depressed. I asked, What's the matter? He said, I got a telephone and nobody called me. He didn't give his number out - he didn't know that you had to!

  Pat Cooper

  Running, Uncles, Father

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• She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and met him, that floored her -- really grabbed her. She decided that Wayne Shorter was really conducive to her music. She would speak metaphorically about things. "I want this to sound like a taxicab driver, or a taxi in New York," or "I want this to sound like a telephone ringing." She would speak to musicians like that, and we really tuned into what she would want our music to be.

  Don Alias

  New York, Elements, Want

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• I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Hate, Believe, Phones

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• I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

  Douglas Adams

  Thinking, Order, People

  "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires" with Robert X. Cringely, www.pbs.org. 1996.

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• All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality.

  Alfred L. Kroeber

  Art, Men, Law

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• The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Air, Village, Earth

  America and Cosmic Man ch. 2 (1948)

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• I think if you asked people "what's the biggest problem in your life?" They'd say, "I just don't have time for anything!" And at our fingertips, if it isn't e-mail, it's our Blackberry, and it's our iPods and telephones - we never stop. We never take those moments to stop the stimulus to find out "what's going on in there? What's really happening?" And then things start to build up. And then we are almost afraid to slow down.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Thinking, Ipods, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

  Jaron Lanier

  Beautiful, Creativity, Reality

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• I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

  Conor Oberst

  Country, Memories, Sunshine

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• It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It was the White Man who created the miraculous world of electronics, ushering in the telephone, the radio and television. It was the White Race, who in a combined burst of energy and genius sent rockets to the moon and planted the feet of the White Man on extra-terrestrial territory in the last decade.

  Ben Klassen

  Moon, Men, Race

  "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, 1973.

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• We know that ATT is upgrading their TCI network to provide voice services, but we believe that upgrade will go beyond that, for total interactivity at very reliable rates. Video telephone calls, downloading music videos, television broadcasts, online newspapers - all of this would be in digital mode. I think they certainly intend to be the one-stop shop and once they do that, it will force the other multiple system operators to follow suit.

  Robert Rosenberg

  Believe, Thinking, Voice

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• It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

  Mark Twain

  Simple, Men, Ninety Nine

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7082, Delphi Classics

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• Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.

  Frank Zappa

  Numbers, Guy, Atheism

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• Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

  Ben Kingsley

  Love You, Love Is, Skype

  "Sir Ben Kingsley Talks the Boxtrolls, What Convinced Him to Voice an Animated Villain, His Opinion of the Shakespearean Snatcher, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. September 20, 2014.

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• Telephone operators have called me sir since I was 6.

  Suzanne Pleshette

  Operators

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• Hello there. I'm out social climbing, but if you leave your name and number and if you're anybody, I'll get back to you.

  Erma Bombeck

  Climbing, Names, Numbers

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• there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

  Lois Wyse

  Phones, Waiting, Noise

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• If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?

  Judy Garland

  Lonely, Home, Order

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• Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.

  Dorothy Parker

  Bathroom, Excuse, Embarrassed

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• I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of the movie in one picture. Usually, I start my stuff on the telephone. Right by the telephone I've got a book of doodles. When I'm on the phone, I'll be doing a drawing eventually.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Art, Book, School

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