Alternative Communication Quotes

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write.

Music helps me tell my story. That's where I can really be heard. But there's so much focus on the things that aren't music.

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.

You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.

I believe that if I wasn't born in this technological and 'social media' era, I would have found another way to express myself.

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

You should have mechanisms of communication, like faxes, which are obviously getting removed from offices because nobody uses them anymore. Faxes are great when e-mail doesn't work. I wouldn't be throwing them away.

You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."