Quotes About Communication

Producing a good product requires a lot more than good technical skills: it requires a harmonious, smoothly functioning, cooperative and respectful organization.

The designer shouldn't think of a simple dichotomy between errors and correct behavior; rather, the entire interaction should be treated as a cooperative endeavor between person and machine, one in which misconceptions can arise on either side.

Machines that give too much feedback are like backseat drivers.

If only people would read the instructions," they say, "everything would be all right.

Blaming a person is seldom appropriate or useful, a

Good design starts with an understanding of psychology and technology. Good design requires good communication, especially from machine to person, indicating what actions are possible, what is happening, and what is about to happen.

Whenever you see hand-lettered signs pasted on doors, switches, or products, trying to explain how to work them, what to do and what not to do, you are also looking at poor design.

Violation of cultural conventions can completely disrupt an interaction.

the writer is [...] the work's way of getting itself written

I spoke to Sylvia. Do you think this is a good life?

The combinatory agility of words," he wrote in "Not-Knowing," "the exponential generation of meaning once they're allowed to go to bed together, allows the writer to surprise himself, makes art possible, reveals how much of Being we haven't yet encountered.

And eloquence, Henry Mackie says, is really all any of us can hope for.

Love, which is a kind of permission to come closer than ordinary norms of good behavior might usually sanction. - Back rubs. - Which enables us to see each other without clothes on, for example, in lust and shame. - Examining perfections, imperfections. - Which allows us to say wounding things to each other which would not be kosher under the ordinary rules of civilized discourse.

The aim of interpretation is not agreement but understanding

Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.

Nearly every example of faulty reasoning that has been published is accompanied by the phrase of course or its equivalent.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

Face-to-face communication is inherently real-time and combines both verbal and nonverbal information.

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

Most of them have gotten really good at saying absolutely nothing. They've all got some kind of program, but when you listen to them, you still don't know what they're talking about.

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