796 quotes found
“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say ...”
“I know I am talking nonsense, but Id rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.”
“Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if were all constantly correcting each others grammar and being really...”
“The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.”
“Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But my communication system disqualifies repartee: the keenest rapier grows dull an...”
“[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier...”
“He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.”
“At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.”
“The medium obscured the message.”
“Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate ...”
“Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.”
“This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.”
“A trees most important means of staying connected to other trees is a wood wide web of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of in...”
“The essence of communication is intention.”
“It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.”
“When one comes from the bottom they know how to deal with people on the bottom.When one educates themself to communicate they learn how to deal with a multitude of types of people.Life experience, ...”
“People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.”
“Do you understand what I'm saying?Pardon? I just wanna hear you talking.”
“Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we ...”
“In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-...”
