Quotes About Communication

You men always try to tell our story. You men always get it wrong.

The poet wants to 'say' something. Why, then, doesn't he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through his metaphors? Through his metaphors, he risks saying it partially and obscurely, and risks saying nothing at all. But the risk must be taken, for direct statement leads to abstraction and threatens to take us out of poetry altogether.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

The heat compounded, and ugliness settled its cloud over us, profound as human speech, although by then we were not speaking.

And for her, now, replaced by the plain language of the dogs, who in a few syllables have everything to say.

I will omit but I will not distort.

I have been extremely positive with almost all new people. And why, let me ask, shan't I be? When you think, you have a lot of to say for someone you know for a short time.

When you are communicating with new people you do not have to know their names — after all, you've just met.

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

The quipu is significant because it dispels the notion that mathematics flourishes only after a civilization has developed writing; however, societies can reach advanced states without ever having developed written records.

The usefulness of mathematics allows us to build spaceships and investigate the geometry of our universe. Numbers may be our first means of communication with intelligent alien races. Some physicists have even speculated that an understanding of higher dimensions and of topology-the study of shapes and their interrelationships-may someday allow us to escape our universe, when it ends in either great heat or cold, and then we could call all of space-time our home.

The fact is that no language can be truly alive that is not used by women.

Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability could overcome.

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.

my throat and told him that I'd have to consult with my client. "How

Why do women have cunts?" "I can't imagine." "So that men will talk to them.

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

Fifty years ago I knew the names of everyone who lived in my street. Now, in this age of information, I know the names of hardly anybody who lives in my street.

A picture may be worth a thousand words but it needs a thousand words to describe a picture.

The right word at the right time stops wars, cures heartaches, mends bridges, sweeps away barriers. The wrong word is the dropped match that lights a forest fire. 

We find in silence and body language the shadow of truth.

It is a curse not speaking languages and in a broken world more important than ever before.

Sorry is what the English say when they don't know what to say.