Avram Miller > Quotes

“When looking for a place to live, I was shocked to see advertisements in newspapers saying, “No Jews wanted.” I had not much experience with antisemitism before. This was the beginning of the realization that Jews were still not safe in Europe.”
― Avram Miller, The Flight of a Wild Duck: An Improbable Journey Through Life and Technology

“In those days, if you made a long-distance call from a pay phone, the operators would ask you to deposit a certain amount of money to speak for three minutes. Each type of coin would make a distinctive sound on the line, which the operator would track and credit.”
― Avram Miller, The Flight of a Wild Duck: An Improbable Journey Through Life and Technology

“We recorded the sounds when we made a call. From then on, we just used the recordings to reproduce the sounds that would tell the operator that we had deposited coins.”
― Avram Miller, The Flight of a Wild Duck: An Improbable Journey Through Life and Technology