Fax Machines Quotes

• A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Use, Ifs, Values

  Kwame Anthony Appiah (2010). “The Ethics of Identity”, p.130, Princeton University Press

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• Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. 100 years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.

  James Altucher

  Kissing, Dust, Hands

  "10 Reasons Why You Have To Quit Your Job This Year" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. May 10, 2013.

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• My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.

  Sara Blakely

  Years, Firsts, Cold

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• I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Simple

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• I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head

  Duncan Sheik

  Home, Progression, Chords

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• All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is based on the premise that the essential nature of the material world is non-material.

  Deepak Chopra

  Technology, Phones, Essentials

  Source: accessnewage.com

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• The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in.

  Torsten Wiesel

  Eye, People, Brain

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• I have a fax machine with "fax waiting".

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Waiting

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• I don't know. I don't have a fax machine, so I didn't get that message.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Lakers, Messages

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• I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

  David Tang

  Moving, Ipads, Long

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• I don't send messages, I'm not a fax machine

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Fax, Machines, Messages

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• I spent all my money on a FAX machine. Now I can only FAX collect.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Humor

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• In the summer between my freshman and sophomore year, my grandfather got me a job at a local messenger company working on Wall Street. I was lucky enough to have been in the business during a stock market boom but just before the fax machine appeared on the scene, let alone email and the Internet. As a result, the messenger business was booming.

  Lewis Schiff

  Summer, Jobs, Wall

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of television, and have been subjected to what I call "the age of interruption," where everything is interrupted every minute. We have constant input from TV, computers, fax machines, telephones, etc. It's very hard for a modern American to have two hours of uninterrupted time. I know how it is because I insist on several hours of uninterrupted time each day, and I know how ruthless I have to be to get it.

  Michael Ventura

  Years, Two, Age

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if, it's a question of when. And the reason is, just think about the fact that those businesses that adopt new technologies to operate efficiently and use them to get a competitive edge are the businesses that in fact, you know, it becomes one more competitive advantage. Whether it's a fax machine or a mobile phone or a new way of doing financing or any of these things, you know, these are key things to do.

  Reid Hoffman

  Technology, Thinking, Phones

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Mike Huckabee said he's the only person who has fought the Clinton political machine and won. As opposed to Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, who's the only person who fought a fax machine and lost.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Political, Clinton, Lost

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• My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

  Maira Kalman

  Book, Light, Telephones

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• The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

  Paul Krugman

  Impact, Squares, Law

  "Paul Krugman Responds To All The People Throwing Around His Old Internet Quote" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. December 30, 2013.

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• Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

  John Sununu

  Yellow, Digital Revolution, Telephones

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• I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

  Susan Orlean

  Home, Phones, Cells

  "Communication Fatigue" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

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