This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads,… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer,… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Henry Ford has several times sneered at unproductive stockholders.... Well, now. Let's see. Who made Henry Ford's own automobile company possible? The… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should)… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Just take ease of interchange between people. Your email is of course faster than letter - on the other hand the transition… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you… — Lawrence Halprin Copy Share Image
Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and… — Nathan Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in… — Arnold Leese Copy Share Image
It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their… — George Iles Copy Share Image
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
