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Quotes About Telecommunication

And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.
~ Steve Case
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
~ Ray Kurzweil
I wonder if Alexander Graham Bell knew, back when he invented the telephone, how much control his device would have over the lives of so many people." Bloody Mary (2005/2006) ...if he only knew, 12 years later
~ J.A. Konrath
The Computer as a Communication Device.
~ Unknown
It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.
~ Meg Whitman
The first transatlantic cable was not laid until 1956, and it could transmit only 36 calls at any one time. As late as 1966, only 138 simultaneous calls could take place between Europe and all of North America,
~ Michael Strong
Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
~ Ogden Nash