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Technology's Collection of Telecom Humor
"This
'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered
as a means of communications. The device is inherently of no value
to us."
-An 1876 internal memo at Western Union, responding to Alexander
Graham Bell's offer to sell them his patent on the telephone for
$100,000
"The
talking telegraph is a beautiful thing from a scientific point
of view. . . but if you look at it in a business light, it is
of no importance."
-Elisha Gray, who invented the telephone independently and filed
his patent application a few hours after Alexander Graham Bell
"[The
telephone's] an amazing invention, but who would ever want to
use one of them?"
-Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States
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