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Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density… — Alexander Graham Bell
The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired… — Neil Postman
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same… — Jamais Cascio
Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion… — Alan Turing
Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer, all those things… — David Boaz
I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I… — Vidal Sassoon
Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a… — Eric Gill
Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value. — George Iles
Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all… — A. E. Coppard
We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and sky… — Gerald Stanley Lee
The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect. — Alison Gopnik
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. — Friedrich Nietzsche
But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do… — Dan Stevens
A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. […] The telegraph… — Neil Postman
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing… — Albert Einstein
She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to… — Ayn Rand
Then I dropped my forehead against his and sat there for a long time, as if I could telegraph a message through our two skulls,… — John Grogan
Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal… — Anais Nin
If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an… — Henry David Thoreau
I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but… — Dennis Potter
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand… — John Searle
Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power… — Richard Jefferies

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