"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

January 1, 1970

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Educators from ChinaImmigrants to the United StatesElectrical engineersPhysicists from ChinaAcademics from China
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In an interview, April 9, 1995, about his efforts at persuading telecommunications companies to use optical fibers, as quoted by