Telegraph Quotes

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No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light and understanding.

Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its commercial value will be limited.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Unlike Hillary Clinton, who has risked so many lives with her careless handling of sensitive information, my administration will not telegraph exactly military plans and what they are.

An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.

In Morocco, " said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.