telephones

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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations. Brian Eno

I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer. Douglas Adams

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. Thabo Mbeki

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

Twenty-five years from now...Computers will be exactly like telephones. They are probably going to be communicating all the time ... I would hope that by the year 2000 there is this big [networking] infrastructure, giving us arbitrary bandwidth on a pay-as-you-go basis. Gordon Bell

Telephones are like women. No one really knows anything about them. One fine day, something goes wrong; you try to find out why, no good, you swear, you shake them up a bit and all is well. André Maurois