Quotes About Communication

God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.

I treated women as human beings, which is of course fatal.

Cronkite had mastered the intentional pause, the need for frozen seconds of long silence at certain historic moments. Nobody before or after Cronkite had mastered the art of communicating news on television nightly without ever becoming an irritant.

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.

Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you've magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

the new incoming phone has to be

So I hired consultants to block all communication off the island, from landlines, cells, or computers. Cells can't get voice, text, e-mail, or Internet.

And Internet is incoming only," continued Knight. "Brain Trust scientists, and others on this island, can enter terms into a Google search bar, but that's the only way they can interact with the outside world. The results of their searches can be opened and downloaded, but it's one-way traffic only." He smiled. "None of this was easy to do, but it is quite foolproof.

Good to know. Because proposing while we're both naked is pretty pathetic. Bad form.

Don't get me wrong," continued Jenna, "I have nothing against people with good working vocabularies. I'd like to think I have one. And sometimes a less common word needs to be used to convey a nuance, or achieve a necessary level of precision. But if something can be said simply, it should be. Using big words isn't impressive. Getting points across simply, succinctly, but with great clarity is.

Have you ever tried taking a phone away from a teen, especially for an extended period?

since you're awake and dressed, why isn't your phone on?" She asked the question as if it was one of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos. As if the idea of not having a phone on and by one's side every waking instant was inconceivable.

we'll avoid your biggest mistake, by making sure smart phones and social media never comes into being.

sometimes a less common word needs to be used to convey a nuance, or achieve a necessary level of precision. But if something can be said simply, it should be. Using big words isn't impressive. Getting points across simply, succinctly, but with great clarity is.

Telepathy must somehow travel through four dimensions, so the signal can remain strong, taking a shortcut through vast 3D distances.

We used to spend quality time with a few people. Actually with them—physically. For hours on end. Now we spend time interacting with hundreds of people, but on our phones, or sitting in a chair all alone facing a computer screen.

If I would have had more time, I'd have written you a shorter letter.

Knight wasn't lying," whispered Wexler. "You can type inside a Google search bar, and download files, but can't send anything else through cyberspace, including passwords.

Einstein had famously said, "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Who knew that sex was so much better when the relationship had nothing to do with sex? And