Telephones Quotations | Page 2

While living, apparently, as modern men and women, using electric fans and electric irons, telephones and trains, and aeroplanes, when they can afford it, they nourish in their hearts a deep contempt for the childish conceit and bloated hopes of our age, and for the various recipes for saving, mankind, which zealous philosophers and politicians thrust into circulation. They know that nothing can save mankind, for mankind is reaching the end of its present cycle. The wave that carried it, for so mane millenniums, is about to break, with all the fury of acquired speed, and to merge once more into the depth of the unchanging Ocean of undifferentiated existence. It will rise; again, some day, with abrupt majesty, for such is the law of waves. But in the meantime nothing can be done to stop it.

The safety and security of students is always a priority. Security measures remain in place such as locked doors, security cameras, telephones in classrooms, etc. Students and staff are reminded of these measures periodically and are asked to be on alert for unusual activity, which should be reported immediately.

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

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.

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

What used to require a network of professional promoters and brokers, banks of telephones and months to accomplish can now be done in minutes by a single person using the Internet and a home computer.

Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.