Quotes About Communication

Modern conflict is as much about conditioning public opinion as any other strategy in the war against terror.

I cannot reveal how the UVF knew the precise characters of both men's statements but I have been informed that the UVF leadership were aware of the content of Moore's statement within forty-eight hours of it being made.

Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might think of us. But there's more to it than that. We are terrified of what they might do with the knowledge.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

For diagrams comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

Code that communicates its purpose is very important. I often refactor just when I'm reading some code. That way as I gain understanding about the program, I embed that understanding into the code for later so I don't forget what I learned.

Martin Fowler NoSQL Distilled: "In general, with remote communication you want to reduce the number of round trips involved in the interaction, so it's useful to be able to put a rich structure of information into a single request or response." Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" "Due to the latency costs of remote calls, it's better to err on the side of sending too much data than have to make multiple calls.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Life being what it is, you won't get your names right the first time. In this situation you may well be tempted to leave it—after all it's only a name. That is the work of the evil demon Obfuscatis; don't listen to him. If you see a badly named method, it is imperative that you change it. Remember your code is for a human first and a computer second. Humans need good names.

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Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

The Rail Fence Cipher Suppose

A plentiful supply of paper – just as much as the study of ancient sculpture or single-point perspective – was among the factors that led to what we call the Renaissance. It allowed artists to think and work in different ways, a transformation as significant as the Internet and computer technology have been in the early twenty-first century.

That winter the son's need for his father's love was again disappointed. On November 10, three weeks before his twelfth birthday, he wrote to him, 'You never came to see me on Sunday when you were in Brighton.' This was the second time his father had been in Brighton but had not gone to see him.

The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool.

Arthur Scargill, the miners' leader and socialist, once told The Sunday Times, 'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Over the last decade, we've experienced astonishing advances in communication and in access to information. Our lives have been hugely enriched by consumer electronics and web-based services that we would willingly pay far more for, and which surpass any expectations we had a decade ago. And the impact on the developing world has been dramatic: there are more mobile phones than toilets in India. Mobile

Some innovations just don't attract enough economic or social demand: just as supersonic flight and manned space flight stagnated after the 1970s, today (in 2002) the potentialities of broadband (G3) technology are being taken up rather slowly because few people want to surf the Internet or watch movies from their mobile phones.

The Internet offers access, in principle, to an unprecedented variety of opinions and information. Nonetheless, it could narrow understanding and sympathies rather than broaden them: some people may choose to stay closeted within a cybercommunity of the likeminded.

a person generally stands to benefit more from appearing dumber than he is rather than smarter.