Quotes About Communication

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts…. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better. —GEORGE ORWELL, "POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE," 1946

the phone rang. When the phone rang so early in the morning, it oftentimes meant somebody was dead. An elderly person had passed in the night. A Friday night traffic fatality. The families of deceased would set about the task of notifying family and friends, and somewhere among the sad litany of phone calls, they dialed our number.

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

We need to talk," she sputtered. Adam winced. He was sure there weren't any other words in the world that would strike fear into a man of any species as quickly as those four. A man never said them.

It's just that I'd rather get to know you before I get to know your lips.

In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many Internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Yardley's The American Black Chamber

One uttered word of explanation is wrong,

Too many salesmen, I found, would make a good presentation and convince the client, but they couldn't recognize that critical moment when they should have stopped talking. If

Our first invention was the story.

As Einstein said, "Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler.")

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

capacity, and bandwidth) of information technologies

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

New models based on direct personalized communication with the customer will transform every industry, resulting in massive disintermediation of the middle layers that have traditionally separated the customer from the ultimate source of products and services.

It was not Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank that overturned the 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, but rather the clandestine network of fax machines, photocopiers, video recorders, and personal computers that broke decades of totalitarian control of information

In order for a digital neocortex to learn a new skill, it will still require many iterations of education, just as a biological neocortex does, but once a single digital neocortex somewhere and at some time learns something, it can share that knowledge with every other digital neocortex without delay. We can each have our own private neocortex extenders in the cloud, just as we have our own private stores of personal data today.

La gente que sabe contar historias siempre tiene compañía.

The international code for signalling with a whistle is: One blast – Where are you? Two blasts – Come to me Three blasts – I need help Response – One blast

Wittgenstein's language has the singularly rare quality of being both colloquial and painstakingly precise.

What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.