#phones

It's not that you can't get things done with the use of a cell phone; indeed you can get a lot of things done. However, the nature of what you get done is highly skewed. Just as the man with only a hammer sees everything as nails, the incessant cell phone user accomplishes a variety of tasks, understandably enough, that accrue directly to having a cell phone. ↗

— Jeff Davidson

#nature

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#about #ask #country #get #here

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class. ↗

— David Miliband

#alone #biggest #britain #class #economies

I didn't bring my headphones, I'd watched the two movies they had played and I was just like, 'Can we please find a donor that wants to give us a private jet? This is not Okay.' ↗

— Cat Osterman

#donor #find #give #had #headphones

Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones. ↗

— Don Rickles

#dummy #i #only #phones #who

Dinner conversations with telemarketers are so much livelier than saying you’re not interested and then checking your new message afterwards. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #loneliness #phones #telemarketing #funny

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#big #bought #broadcast #cassette #headphones

Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#cell-phones #compassion #computers #internet #art

Remember when only a few people had mobile phones. Generally regarded as an object of derision, you would occasionally see business types clutching those ridiculous grey bricks to their faces and mutter to yourself 'what a prick.' Nowadays, an eyebrow hardly even flutters when we see a ten-year-old child happily texting away. You probably wouldn't notice anyway; you'd be too busy downloading an app that could definitively pinpoint who it was that had just farted in your tube carriage. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#children #humor #society #technology #business

I would have used the telephone on the Shabbat even though it's forbidden, and God wouldn't have held it against me because he's probably on my side in this affair. ↗

— Barbara Honigmann

#shabbat #telephone #love