Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

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

And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Discover this remarkable device called the telephone. It will give you a serious competitive advantage.

There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

I don't like telephones.

Mail is quick. Telegraph is quicker. Telephone is instantaneous.

… the telephone was only a convenience permitting Americans to do more orally and with less effort than what they had been doing before.

Alexander Graham Bell brought us the telephone. He owns the telephones in the buildings. Thomas Edison owns the lightbulb. Whether they took it and did things to improve it, he's the guy. Now on the dance floor, that belongs to Chubby Checker.

One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.

I got an answering machine for my phone. . . . Now, when I'm not home and somebody calls me up . . . they hear a recording of a busy signal.

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.

Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.

Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do. That is why Facebook is here on this planet.

The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.

Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.

The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.

I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.

You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.

Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.