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Supply 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

"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us throughout the whole Earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone."
-Mark Twain's Christmas greetings, 1890

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