Quotes About Communication

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.

I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.