Quotes About Communication

You can be such a reptile sometimes," she said.

Come on, you guys." Caraco leans back against the drying rack. "Can't you settle this some other way? Maybe you could just whip out a ruler and compare your dicks or something.

He's smarter than all of us put together, but sometimes he talks like he's got a fifty-word vocabulary." A soft snort. "It's not like it'd kill him to use an adverb once in a while.

The Colonel grunted. "In my experience, those things don't have to try to scare the shit out of anyone. If she wanted you dead or broken, you would be. Vampires have—idiomatic speech patterns. You may have simply misunderstood her." "She called me a cold cut.

I deal with other people's information. I don't vomit my own personal life into the public sphere.

Don't lecture me in my own field! We've got language and speech centers hardwired into our brains. That gives us a common starting point. Gels don't have anything like that. Speech might just be one giant conditioned reflex to them.

Oh, it might not be perfect. It might be a bit redundant, or resort to the occasional expository infodump. But even real people do that, don't they?

They're not post-Human. Not yet." "How can you tell?" It was only half a joke. "Because otherwise we wouldn't be able to talk to them at all.

You give up a lot when you don't trust the EM spectrum.

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, and keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

I mean, Mom would never admit it in a million years but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it's a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke signals. It's noble, it's maybe the most noble thing a body can do but you can't turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something. It's limiting. Maybe whatever's out here doesn't even use it.

How do you say We come in peace when the very words are an act of war?

Linguists don't use it?" I knew some that did. "We don't." And the others are hacks. "Thing about game theory is, it assumes rational self-interest among the players. And people just aren't rational.

IF I CAN BUT MAKE THE WORDS AWAKE THE FEELING. —Ian Anderson, Stand Up

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.

How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?

but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it's a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke signals. It's noble, it's maybe the most noble thing a body can do but you can't turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.

Three life rules guaranteed to bring you peace in life. 1. Keep your mouth shut. 2. Keep your big mouth shut. 3 Keep your stupid big mouth shut.

Finally, communication seems to work wonders during a trip alone. Some sailors find ways to talk to inanimate objects assign them a personality and make them members of the crew. It is a great way to cope with loneliness and express your emotions.

To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.

En cuanto pulso el botón del mando a distancia, me encuentro frente a uno de esos especialistas que aparecen en todos los noticiarios. En los viejos tiempos, los parroquianos solían reunirse en las cafeterías. Ahora se reúnen en los platós de televisión.

Sofradaki münala?an?n çirkin bir çocu?u do?du: Sükut. Ruhlar ac?la?m??t? ve güzel bir mevzua girilemiyordu.

Ah, insanlar niçin her ?eyi anlam?yorlar? Be? dakika on dakika yar?m saat kendilerini unutsalar, kendilerini kar??lar?ndakinin yerine koysalar, tam onun gibi-fakat hiç eksiksiz ve tam- onun gibi duysalar, her ?ey ne kadar yerli yerinde olacak. Hay?r! ?lla ki z?ddiyetler, öfkeler, yanl?? anla??lmalar, inatlar, ?üpheler, hakim olmak arzular?…