Quotes About Communication

You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.

See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.

If I have a problem or am not happy about something, I have to be able to have an honest debate or conversation with somebody.

Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

A debate is a very specific kind of performance.

You can't have a nuanced debate on Twitter, it's just people shouting.

We ought to be able to talk about ideas, we ought to be able to debate ideas because that's how you get to consensus and that's how you move this country forward and that's how you move this state forward. We do a better job of it in Iowa. We do.

No one has debates on Twitter.

One one hand, it's important to hear out the other side and try to reason with them using facts. The problem arises when we can't even agree on what the facts are. I've found myself walking away from debates when the person I'm talking to just won't acknowledge long-established facts.

Politicians have an arrogance that I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debates in high school.

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.

Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.

Adobe and Apple have collaborated a lot over the decades. There's a lot more for us to do as well.

Email will probably be around for many decades to come. It's hard to say what will happen 20 years from now, but email has been around for decades, and it will likely be around for decades more.

In love, I've been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

This country is not going to progress if we can't have decent civil conversations and be respectful to one another.

No real or decent man verbally attacks a woman.

All confrontation is based on deception.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.