Quotes About Clarity

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.

Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.

Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.

It's not about the language, it's about the message

When communication in unclear speculations takes precedence.

Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

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

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me.

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?

True confidence comes from realizing the view.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.