Related:

• 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....