Quotes About Communication

Nikola Tesla predicted in 1926 that "when wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain

For the first eight months of the war, as incredible as it sounds, William and Elizebeth, and their team at Riverbank, did all of the codebreaking for every part of the U.S. government: for the State Department, the War Department (army), the navy, and the Department of Justice.

There were possibly three or at most four persons" in the whole United States who knew the slightest thing about codes

If you build software, every error message is marketing

Top-down change without honest feedback from those affected by the change simply will not work.

Behind Closed Doors 1, a fantastic book about management from Esther Derby and Johanna Rothman.

Were you listening to a word I said?' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.

You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what did he say?' 'I don't know.' 'I thought you said you spoke gibberish?' 'I do. But your baby doesn't. I think he's speaking either pre-toddler nonsense, a form of infact burble or an obscure dialect of gobbledygook. In any event, I can't understand a word he's saying.' 'Oh.

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth," he said, with annoying clarity.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

He also thought that 'abbreviation' was too long for its meaning, that 'monosyllabic' should have one syllable, 'dyslexic' should be renamed 'O' and 'unspeakable' should be respelt 'unsfzpxkable.

They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.

It was one of those British phrases, along with 'May I help you?', that can be either exceedingly polite or hugely aggressive.

So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?

although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom.

Are you married? Yes, I mumbled, that is to say - no. Come, come, said Havisham angrily. It is a simple enough question. I was married, I answered. Died? No, I mumbled, that is to say - yes. I'll try harder questions in future, announced Havisham, for you are obviously not adept at the easy ones.

Humans have a very clear idea about how to behave, and on many occasions actually do. But it's sometimes disheartening that correct action is drowned out by endless chitter-chatter, designed not to find a way forward but to justify petty jealousies and illogically held prejudices.

All those words,' she whispered, 'so diligently placed together, and so pointlessly torn apart.

Much that we had appreciated about one another had been left unsaid. In humor, in life and in love, we had understood.

I had learned from my mother's many letters that Mycroft had invented a method for sending pizzas by fax

Take the first had had and that that in the book by way of example, explained Lady Cavendish. You would have thought that that first had had had had good occasion to be seen as had , had you not? Had had had approval but had had had not; equally it is true to say that that that that had had approval but that that other that that had not.

I tried to think of a reasonable opening line, as I had several things to say that could be described as witty OR intelligent, but not both. Quite WHY I needed to talk to her I had no idea.

You don't like me, do you?' 'That would take effort,' she replied. 'Indifference is much, MUCH easier.