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“In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, .. Watch the films from 1958 up to 1959, and watch American Bandstand during that time. After the song came out, everything was different.”

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Author:Chubby Checker

“Alexander Graham Bell's wife, who said to Alex on their wedding night, Your three minutes are up. Never got a dinner!”

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Author:Red Buttons

“Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!”

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Author:Andy Kindler

“On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?”

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Book:Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.”

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Book:Daisy Fay And The Miracle Man

Source: Daisy Fay And The Miracle Man

“The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate the darkness of things. In order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a somersault into the unconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating what you want instead of what you don't have.”

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Book:The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition

Source: The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition

“Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?”

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Book:Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“If you are to use Alexander Graham Bell’s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it as he would have wished; and Dr Bell insisted that all phone calls should begin with the words ‘Ahoy, ahoy’. Nobody knows why he insisted this – he had no connection to the navy – but insist he did and started every phone call that way. Nobody else did, and it was at the suggestion of his great rival Edison that people took to saying ‘Hello’. This seems unfair.”

Source: Mark Forysth's Gemel Edition: The Etymologicon and The Horologicon ebook bundle

“I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.”

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Author:Rita Mae Brown