- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Phone Quotes
On calls, apps, and the platforms fighting over your pocket.
One quote admits to basically living on a phone, news and information apps and all, while another wonders whether a third smartphone platform can ever catch up to the two giants. Compare notes with our Cell Phone quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a microwave every day.
- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
- Every Single Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Police officers, firefighters, EMTs - they are all out there every single day - literally just a phone call away for anyone who needs them.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lots of brothers and sisters, two of whom are younger than myself, so I rely on my phone, text messaging or e-mailing to stay in the loop and communicate when I'm away for big chunks of time.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing the Allman Brothers Band does not do is phone it in. They bring it every night and that's something I draw from.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Further ahead, I'd like to see tiny spacebots - smaller than your cell phone - travel outside our solar system to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. By keeping the mass of those spacebots low, we could more easily accelerate them.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.
- Nov 07, 2020
I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020