Dec 07, 2005 19:55
Here's a quote that I ran into that I've never seen before. I found it quite amusing.
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." -- Albert Einstein
Remember this the next time you are talking to someone on the telephone. The phone is the head of a very large cat. And somewhere out there someone is pulling its tail...