Communication Quote by Paul Gordon Lauren

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

— Lawrence Durrell

“Would not our contemporaries prize the telephone and the telephote more highly if they had not forgotten the telegraph?”

— Jules Verne

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

— Ambrose Bierce

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

— Gary Shteyngart

“...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

“unhooked telephone”: the”

— Otto F. Kernberg

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

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

If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can…

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Michael Finkel

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

— Christopher Bram

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

— Eric Hobsbawm