Quote by Jules Verne

“And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph?”

— Michael Finkel

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

“It was truly a transitional moment: There he was, at the cusp of the twentieth century, using the telephone to send a telegram.”

— Erik Larson

“. . .they were assisted by the new technological invention of the telephone (that enemy of reflection, which became increasingly accepted as as means of communication) . . .”

— Paul Gordon Lauren

“Mark my words. The telephone will never become a practical necessity.”

— Lisa Harris

“The telephone is a modern symbol for communications which never take place”

— Lawrence Durrell

“...these phones are not for transmitting literature; they are news lines, dedicated to the who, the what, the when, the where, and sometimes, perhaps,…

— Amy Rowland 2

“Alexander Graham Bell was said to have made the following entirely endearing remark soon after he had invented the telephone: ‘I do not think…

— Stephen Fry

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.”

— Christopher Bram

“Do you know what is our problem? We know everything about our weapons, but we know nothing about how to use a telephone.”

— Asne Seierstad

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

— David Hockney