#telephone

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker. ↗

— Les Paul

#i #into #lead #leads #mother

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone. ↗

— Richard Armour

#hang-ups #i #known #none #suffered

Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed.... ↗

— Ammon Shea

#phone-book #telephone-directory #dating

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#book #dead #died #friends #guts

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content. ↗

— Steve Crocker

#challenging #commercial #companies #content #control

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#i #ring #sit #telephone #wait

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#apple ii #been #computer #done #doubt

In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#businesses #distance #federal #general #get

With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone. ↗

— Bob Graham

#al #capabilities #future #groups #learn

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

— David Hockney

#bring #drawing #telephone #thought #who