James Altucher Quotes

You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

I don't really flaunt any gadget, but I am loving my Nokia Lumia.

A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'

In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and that was all any telecom engineer worried about.

America—not Britain—has a use for the telephone. Here we have a superabundance of messengers, errand boys, and things of that kind.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

I grew up in the '70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours every evening as a teenager waiting for the phone to ring and talking to my friends.

The idea that, you know - when I was growing up - that everybody would carry around a portable communicating device, that was science fiction when I was a kid.

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

The mobile phone is not a toy; it's a device that uses radio waves.

If you get rid of music, images, videos, words and literature from the smartphone, you just have a simple phone that would be worth $50.

The phone started ringing when I dropped 'Whack World.'

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.

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.

A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something.

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

The Automatic Telephone Throws on the Subscriber Responsibility for Any Mistakes in Making a Call, Which, in Cosmopolitan Shanghai, May Be Disastrous

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

The telephone number is 1-202-456-1414 When you're serious about peace, call us.

Think about it. If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald's app to tell you where McDonald's is based on your GPS location, that's not a cellphone. If you can get Wikipedia or go to Google, that's not a cellphone.