Quotes About Communication

code is prioritized above human interactions.

Though it is closely linked to computer science, data journalism is generally considered a social science.

data is socially constructed.

Huonokin teksti on aina parempi kuin ei tekstiä ollenkaan. Huono teksti on lähtökohta, mutta jos teksti puuttuu, ei ole mitään.

Kaikessa kirjoittamisessa on tietenkin kaksi puolta: totta kai täytyy olla jotain mistä kirjoittaa, mutta täytyy myös osata kirjoittaa.

Tottumaton kirjoittaja saattaa kuvitella, että ensin mietitään mitä halutaan kirjoittaa, niin että se on valmiina päässä ennen kirjoittamista, mutta oikeastaan ei voi tietää mitä ajattelee ennen kuin alkaa kirjoittaa, sillä kirjoittaessaan ajattelee

No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.

Olivia made a face. "Piers is such an eldest brother!" she said. "He patronizes me. He's come up to town because my mother wrote about Toby and he thinks he ought to see him. Not wants to see him—ought. That's Piers for you!

Who ask don't get who don't ask don't want who don't want don't get who don't get don't care

I'll tell you this, though. It's not true, that saying about sticks and stones; it's words that break your bones.

She said that if I ever did produce an autobiography I should call it, Exit, Talking. This

Orion loved argument just as much as I did, and we would shout at each other; quarrel violently, and continue to like each other. During

That was the time for me to have said, "After all these years, is that what you think of me?" But I didn't. The moment passed. It passed as it had passed so many hundreds of times before, so many thousands of times before.

I overheard a young man once saying to his wife, "I can't control you. That's the problem and it's been the problem ever since day one!" And then I heard her answer him and heard her terrible voice. "No!" she said. "The problem isn't that you can't control me, the problem is that you're trying to. Why don't you stop worrying about controlling me and start worrying about controlling yourself?

And they say that there is no intimacy unless there is mutual acceptance and mutual trust, no matter whatever else there is, and I would side with them.

Her life is a wrecked boat torn apart for kindling and set ablaze to send a message to the sky from a deserted beach. From a distance the words spell SAVE ME. The closer the sign the clearer the statement. Turns out it says FUCK YOU.

You are driving me crazy," I wail. "Why don't you care?" The last word—CARE—loses elasticity and flattens into another long wail. I am knees on the floor, shoulders on the floor, forehead on the floor. It is the fetal position. I get caught in a loop of feelings. I get louder and louder. I am groping about for the concept of NEGLECT. She is neglecting me. But I can't find the words. I can't catch my breath.

PUBLIC RELATIONS GOES DIGITAL

We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.

Silence is golden when it's called for. Silence can be deadly when it's not called for

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

I doubt it with a silent B.

Love makes you say stupid stuff, though I don't think it technically lowers your chances of a scholarship.

Conversation is food for the soul.