Quotes About Communication

Writing is writing

In my experience, the more isolated the developers, the worse the resulting end product. It

we programmers spend our lives writing code so that our fellow human beings no longer need to write code

I'm constantly running across comments from developers who don't seem to understand that the code already tells us how it works; we need the comments to tell us why it works. Code comments

Online, word of mouth changes. In the old world, someone might tell five people, but in the new world, you can tell 5000. But be careful, because it works both ways. If you make a customer happy, he can tell 5000 people, too.

You can explain things to people, but you can't understand things to people.

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

unless you can explain Zen in words that a fisherman will comprehend, you don't know what you're talking about.

Bananas! Here! Blah, blah! Whatever!

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

I would be utterly emabarrassed to have others around me hear my half of what can only be described as pedestrian. "Yes, the elevator has just pulled up to the 16th floor." Do these people have the ability to go, for say, an eight- or ten-minute stretch without being in contact with someone else? What are they afraid of? Confronting their own thoughts?

It's not that you can't get things done with the use of a cell phone; indeed you can get a lot of things done. However, the nature of what you get done is highly skewed. Just as the man with only a hammer sees everything as nails, the incessant cell phone user accomplishes a variety of tasks, understandably enough, that accrue directly to having a cell phone.

The results are in and the cell phone has become the most isruptive aspect of work and everyday life. With more than four fifths of the population sporting these little gadgets, it's now taken as a given that any part of your day is subject to disruption.

Over-communication at work can create a new level of tasks and responsibilities.

In his entire life, George Washington never spent a second watching CNN Headline News or making a Facebook post, and he had no Twitter followers!

When things get personal, we need to resist the natural male instinct to run for cover, man the defenses, or--worst of all--reach for the big guns. Much better to set aside our natural defensiveness and focus on listening well even though we feel under attack. Because we're probably not.

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

I got my wife a mood ring. It works real good! When shes in a good mood it turns blue, but when shes in a bad mood theres a red mark across my forehead

A brand is no longer what it tells consumers it is—it is what consumers tell each other it is.

There was never anything between us and there never will be. Don't waste any more time worrying about feelings that neither of us ever had. - Jake

As a kid who had geared much of his life around the concerns of others, he was neither accustomed to nor comfortable fielding inquiries about himself.

Rob's confidence was communicated with a simple look that said, If you want to, and you don't, then that's on you.