Quotes About Communication

You speak As one who fed on poetry.

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

When asked, 'What did you want to say in this work?' he would answer, 'I've said what I've said.' This made sense in where everyone assumed music had a meaning - but where saying the wrong thing could get a person killed. -Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

Language is not only a means of speech and thought, it is a bridge with the significant function of bringing the wealth of the past to our day and conveying today's heritage and our new compositions to the future.

Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever.

Nations that can manage to develop their language and make it accommondating while at the same time staying faithful to the roots of it are the most communicative societies that are also most dynamic in thought.

Every time a poet is about to write, every time the open their mouth to say something, they express their inner world and tell of their own feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and opinions, unless they are deliberately pursuing fantasies which contrast with their beliefs, opinions, thoughts, and the point of view.

To Wiener, there seemed every possibility that computers and other such technologies of the cybernetic age—he would later coin the phrase "the Second Industrial Revolution"—would have consequences just as dire. Inevitably, he felt, the rich and the powerful would seek to use these new technologies of communication and control to cement their power even further.

Clark, that was the idea: small, independent routing computers.

The real significance of computing was to be found not in this gadget or that gadget, but in how the technology was woven into the fabric of human life—how computers could change the way people thought, the way they created, the way they communicated, the way they worked together, the way they organized themselves, even the way they apportioned power and responsibility.

It is the ultimate expressive medium, Lick later wrote—"the moldable, retentive, yet dynamic medium—the medium within which one can create and preserve the most complex and subtle patterns and through which [one] can make those patterns operate (as programs) upon other patterns (data).

a successful communication] we now define concisely as 'cooperative modeling'—cooperation in the construction, maintenance, and use of a model.

The Computer as a Communication Device.

The Aloha system, he learned, was an experimental, ARPA-funded network that transmitted computer data via radio waves, instead of via the telephone lines used in the Arpanet.

By 1990 the Arpanet was history.

The Arpanet was up and running for real

Berners-Lee's hypertext browsing, users would finally begin to get it about the Internet.

An operator watching his CRT display screen, giving commands to a computer via a keyboard and a handheld light gun, and sending data to other computers via a digital communications link:

Trust your father. He is not perfect, but he loves you and would never do anything he didn't think was in your best interest. So talk to him. Share your thoughts and feelings, your dreams and your fears. The more he knows about your life, the better chance he has to understand your concerns and to give you good counsel.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.