T e l e g r a p h, T e l e p h o n e & W i r e l
e s s:
How Telecom Changed the World
Selected quotes
This is a small sample; you'll have to check the
book to see who said it, and to get the rest!
p. 1
Those who don't know history are destined to
repeat it.
p. 53
It is worthy of remark, that more business was
done by merchants after the tariff was laid than when the service was
gratuitus.
p. 208
The least initial deviation from the truth is
multiplied later a thousand-fold.
p. 221
The history of the telephone will never be fully
written. It is partly hidden away in 20 or 30 thousand pages of testimony and
partly lying on the hearts and consciences of a few whose lips are sealed, -- some in death and others by a golden
clasp whose grip is even tighter.
p. 213
The world as yet does not know how much it owes
to you, and this generation will never know it. I regard what has been done as
the most marvellous thing in human history.
p.264
One of very most useful of all inventions, but
rendered almost worthless & a cold and deliberate theft & swindle by
the black scoundrelism & selfishness of the companies of chartered robbers
who conduct it.
p. 403
Even if I could be Shakespeare, I think I should
still choose to be Faraday.
p. 455
The more anything cost the better he liked it. .
. He had an utter disregard for money.
p. 157
The lamplight falls on blackened walls,
and streams through narrow perforations;
The long beam trails o'er pasteboard scales,
with slow, decaying oscillations;
Flow, current, flow! Set the quick light spot
flying!
Flow, current, answer, light-spot! Flashing,
quivering, dying.
p. 515
But if God had not given the right of monopoly
to AT&T after the war, the FCC did.
The
commission ignored cost comparisons, and . . .
narrowed the ability of other companies to compete. . .
p. 521
If you invent something, that doesn't
necessarily help anybody. You've got to get it into the world; you've got to
produce.