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To: Jeff Dryer who wrote (5216)5/6/1999 10:56:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk  Respond to of 28311
 
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To: Jeff Dryer who wrote (5216)5/6/1999 11:10:00 PM
From: RTev  Respond to of 28311
 
OT
Twain ...must be surfing the Web somewhere at this very moment watching thousands and thousands of sites evolve.

Ahh, but if he is, he's that cantankerous old man on the bulletin board who rails and curses against the stupidity of it all. As he once said "I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55."

Here are a few more of those pithy quotes:
cmgww.com

Imagine what he'd think of the web, considering his opinion of the telephone (of which he was an early adopter):

beloit.edu
"if Bell had invented a muffler or gag, he would have done a real service. Here we have been hollering 'Shut up' to our neighbors for centuries, and now you fellows come along and seek to complicate matters."

"It is my heart-warm and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us . . . may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss-- except the inventor of the telephone


And a letter to Bell's father-in-law:
memory.loc.gov