Computers Quote by Charles Babbage

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York,…

— Albert Einstein

For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every…

— James Gleick

“Consider this oddly neglected fact: the West was acquired, conquested, and largely consolidated into the nation coincident with the greatest breakthrough in the history…

— Elliott West

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is…

— Albert Einstein

An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.

— Christilot Hanson-Boylen

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

— Emily Greene Balch

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

— Dean Kamen

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to…

— Noam Chomsky

Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for…

— Nathan Eldon Tanner

I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe…

— Prince Philip

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

— George Bernard Shaw