Quotes About Knowledge

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.

Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.

Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn

I look like a geeky hacker but I don't know anything about computers.

The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

It's nice the know the computer understands the situation, but I would like to understand it too.

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

The computer is a moron.