Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor
"The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking."
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Alan Turing
Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain."
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor
"First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.""
Judith Martin
Poet
"Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person who refuses to be on call, rather than the importunate caller, who is considered rude."
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor
"The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent."
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"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."
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"[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?"
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"I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone."
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"My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director."
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"The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument."
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"I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone ."
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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."
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"My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book."
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"I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!"
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"In all those types of films I wore a tan suit, a grey suit, a beige suit and then a negligee for the seventh reel near the end when I would admit to my best friend on the telephone that what I really wanted was to become a little housewife."
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"The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car."
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"The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea."
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"Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places."
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"The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers."
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"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."
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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."
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"Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income."
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"If you want to communicate, use the telephone"
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"Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone."
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"Ever hear of a telephone, asshole?"
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