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- Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
- Max Frisch
- Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
- David Frost
- Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950
- The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
- Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876
- The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)
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