Electric Telegraph Quotes

#1. Post Horses and Conveyances of every description may be ordered by the electric telegraph to be in readiness on the arrival of a train, at either Paddington or Slough Station.

Tom Standage

#2. Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

Arthur C. Clarke

#4. Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?

Jules Verne

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

#7. I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

Kent Beck

#8. Night falls fast.
Today is in the past.
Blown from the dark hill hither to my door
Three flakes, then four
Arrive, then many more.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#9. Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

Martha Beck

#10. I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.

Joan Didion

#11. Archer Cross, resident bad boy and total heartthrob. Warlock. Every girl here is at least, like, half in love with him. Crushing on Archer Cross might as well be a class.

Rachel Hawkins

#12. Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV.

Thomas Jane

#13. The exchange of consent being given by the electric flash, they were thus married by telegraph.

Tom Standage