#telephone

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#director #directs #done #film #films

Ah, well! then the young woman was only in advance of the age," said Miss Archer; "and what with that and the telephone, and that dreadful phonograph that bottles up all one says and disgorges at inconvenient times, we will soon be able to do everything by electricity; who knows but some genius will invent something for the especial use of lovers? something, for instance, to carry in their pockets, so when they are far away from each other, and pine for a sound of 'that beloved voice,' they will have only to take up this electrical apparatus, put it to their ears, and be happy. Ah! blissful lovers of the future! ↗

— Ella Cheever Thayer

#technology #telephones #age

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#contain #facts #full #idea #single

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

#cable #distance #facilities #gives #lessen

I have always looked upon a telephone as an official kind of machine which you prepared for with fasting and prayer, and only had recourse to when strictly necessary for important business. ↗

— Charles Norris Williamson

#telephones #business

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. ↗

— Alan Turing

#american #brain #company #developing #i

You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all. ↗

— Catherine Coulter

#men #sex #simile #telephones #men

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#army #battalion #boxes #chain #commander

Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems. ↗

— Luke Perry

#apple #because #biggest #biggest problems #collar

I don't like telephones. ↗

— Marc Bolan

#like #telephones