In an interview, April 9, 1995, about his efforts at persuading telecommunications companies to use optical fibers, as quoted by Jeff Hecht (2004), City of light: the story of fiber optics page: 117, publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0195162552
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If you really look at it, I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real.
— Charles K. Kao
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If you really look at it, I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real." in the context of "In an interview, April 9, 1995, about his efforts at persuading telecommunications companies to use optical fibers, as quoted by Jeff Hecht (2004), City of light: the story of fiber optics page: 117, publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0195162552" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Charles K. Kao
Charles Kuen Kao (4 November 1933 – 23 September 2018) was an engineer and a pioneer in the use of fiber optics in telecommunications. Kao is widely regarded as the "Father of Fiber Optic Communications". He was awarded half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication".
About Charles K. Kao
Charles Kuen Kao (4 November 1933 – 23 September 2018) was an engineer and a pioneer in the use of fiber optics in telecommunications. Kao is widely regarded as the "Father of Fiber Optic Communications". He was awarded half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication".
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