Charles K. Kao Quote

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 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. Oxford University Press. p. 117. ISBN 0195162552.


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.

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.

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.

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.