Quotes About Transmission

Language is a virus from outer space. WILLIAM BURROUGHS

The transmission of information from the alien beings to the experiencers appears to be a fundamental aspect of the abduction phenomenon.

Information during abductions appears to be transmitted in two forms – by direct, mind-to-mind conveyance, or through depiction of phenomena or events on television-like screens.

I send my words to you over the ether net like a message in a bottle...

Without the authority of a written document, there was no way to compare the versions of a text, and we therefore cannot assume that a text recorded in a thirteenth-century source passed unchanged through centuries of oral transmission. This fact makes it extremely difficult to discuss with any authority the time or place of origin of many of the texts of Scandinavian mythology, especially eddic poetry.

He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable to transmission through that inadequate medium, language.

When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed.

El teatro ya no es sólo una comunicación, como la novela o como la poesía, que se recibe asordinadamente y que puede perderse, ni tampoco una simple transmisión de un mensaje por la voz de un orador o de un jugar, que tiene una sola intensidad, una sola nota y una sola vía, sino que, además de todo esto, es el prodigioso encuentro de dos presencias...

Any one observing him would have seen a change in his complexion, in the adjustment of his facial muscles, in the vividness of his glance, which might have made them imagine that every molecule in his body had passed the message of a magic touch. And so it had.

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

How did a novel bat coronavirus get to a major city in the dead of winter when most bats were hibernating, and turn a market where bats weren't sold into the epicenter of an outbreak?

The naive idea that, through education, one can transmit culture to all of society is destroying 'higher culture', because the only way of achieving this universal democratization of culture is by impoverishing culture, making it ever more superficial.

This book was written on an Archives III microcomputer with WordStar software and sent from Colombo to New York on one five-inch diskette. Last-minute corrections were transmitted through the Padukka Earth Station and the Indian Ocean Intelsat V.

We obtained another guinea pig, chloroformed it, and sent it through the transmitter. To our delight, it revived. We immediately had it killed and stuffed for the benefit of posterity. You can see it in the museum with the rest of our apparatus.

French listening posts learned to recognize a radio operator's fist. Once encrypted, a message is sent in Morse code, as a series of dots and dashes, and each operator can be identified by his pauses, the speed of transmission, and the relative lengths of dots and dashes. A fist is the equivalent of a recognizable style of handwriting.

If she could inherit, she would thus wrongly transmit her paternal family's riches to that of her husband: she is carefully excluded from the succession.

So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

We have forgotten that the proper function of the school is to transmit the cultural heritage of one generation to the next generation, and to so train the minds of the new generation as to make them capable of absorbing ancient learning and applying it to the problem of its own day.

I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.

Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

At some point you've got to get to yourself and say, 'Wait a minute, I've been handed this legacy but I have to become accountable so I don't hand a lot of it on to my children.'

Word-of-mouth marketing is the deliberate attempt to encourage and facilitate the transmission of such third-party communication.