Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I have to say that I've reached the state of my career where I quite like not to work. Strange enough, I'm… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones,… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do. — Elie Abel Copy Share Image
David Simon [the creator of The Wire] and I have a running controversy for years. It all stems from a telephone call… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together.… — Julie London Copy Share Image
In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone . — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I've ever had. When you're on and… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
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