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«The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.»
«The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet to reach that many users.»
«The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.»
«Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.»
«We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.»
«Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.»

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