Quote: I haven=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99t_?=made a phone call on my phone in a long time. (Jeff Bezos)
ADSGarson O'Toole
adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jun 27 10:18:47 UTC 2014
Remark by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos after the release of the Amazon Fire
phone. Candidate quotation for the list of interesting pronouncements
of 2014. Hat tip to @wayword (A Way with Words) for tweeting an
article link.
Title: Why Are We Still Calling the Things in Our Pockets ‘Cell Phones’?
Author: Kevin Roose
Date: June 24, 2014
Website: New York magazine
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/06/why-are-we-still-calling-them-cell-phones.html
[Begin excerpt]
"I haven’t made a phone call on my phone in a long time," Bezos later
told the Times. "But I know people still make phone calls."
[End excerpt]
Garson
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