Quotes About Communication

I will not utter falsehoods but I have no objection to making meaningless statements.

The purpose of a lecture should not be to impart information. There are books, libraries, nowadays the internet, for that. A lecture should inspire and provoke thought.

As a child, my wife hated her school and wished she could leave. Years later, when she was in her twenties, she disclosed this unhappy fact to her parents, and her mother was aghast: 'But darling, why didn't you come to us and tell us?' Lalla's reply is my text for today: 'But I didn't know I could.

The computers in which memes live are human brains.

Shouldn't you take greater care, when speaking in public, to let your yea be yea and nay be nay?

CNN journalist Tucker Carlson?

Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes we find it convenient to use words in different senses.

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that the mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.

However, we must expect lies and deceit, and selfish exploitation of communication to arise whenever the interests of the genes of different individuals diverge. This will include individuals of the same species.

They are the outward and visible (audible, etc.) manifestations of the memes within the brain.

They may be perceived by the sense organs of other individuals, and they may so imprint themselves on the brains of the receiving individuals that a copy (not necessarily exact) of the original meme is graven in the receiving brain.

Before writing was invented and before scientific archaeology started, word-of-mouth storytelling, with all its Chinese Whispery distortions, was the only way people learned about history.

Not every English sentence beginning with the word why is a legitimate question.

Any effect that a meme has on the behaviour of a body bearing it may influence that meme's chance of surviving.

Just think what the ordeal must be like for less intellectually robust people, less equipped by education and rhetorical skill than they are, or than Julia Sweeney is, to argue their corner in the face of obdurate family members.

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that the mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world. Whether

An 'idea-meme' might be defined as an entity that is capable of being transmitted from one brain to another.

Arta reprezentationala de toate tipurile (si, probabil, arta non-reprezentationala de asemenea) depinde de observatia ca un lucru poate tine locul altuia si ca aceasta substitutie poate fi utila pentru gandire sau comunicare.

I love you, Lance. He rattles the frame of the window and reaches out at me. I guess that's his way of saying I love you too..

I wrote. Something. Yes. And you were truthful. No. You weren't truthful? I was accurate.

But sometimes things are said and they're not just words. They are everything that one person thinks of another in a sentence. Just one sentence.

Like all immigrants, he seemed to have an unerring instinct for the oldest, truest words in his new language. The way he said the word, it felt free of the treacherous weight of mate

Why do you love words so? he heard Amy ask. ... They were the first beautiful thing I ever knew, Dorrigo Evans said.

Maybe he doesn't really think it now. But sometimes things are said and they're not just words. They are everything that one person thinks of another in a sentence. Just one sentence.