"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who
would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David
Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment i
the radio in the 1920s
would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David
Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment i
the radio in the 1920s
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- The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.
Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?... - In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few
years ago, General David Sarnoff [head of RCA] made this stateme
We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them.... - Edna: [reading] "The wireless was an invention by Guglielmo
Marconi.
Who can tell me what his first message was? Ba... - Commercial radio, commercial radio, commercial
- I don't get it. Who was this Ted Danson, and why would you pay $10,000 for his skeleton?" -Leela
- Excuse me, Sir, said a surveyor to a person in the street,
I am a surveyor and I wonder if you could please help me by
holding this measuring tape for a second or two.
In most cases the stranger would oblige. And the surveyor, who was Horace de Vere Cole, an arch-joker during the 1920s would go around the corner to ask another person to hold the other end of the tape.... - Data: "Captain, you have seemed unusually pensive since we received
the news of Ambassador Sarek's death.
Picard: "Sarek and I shared a particular bond. Our lives touched in an unusual way.... - I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute
and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he like... - wormhole /werm'hohl/ n.
[from the `wormhole'
singularities hypothesized in some versions of General Relativity
theory] 1.
[n.,obs.] A location in a monitor which contains the address of a routine, with the specific intent of making it easy to substitute a different routine....
