Communication Limits Quotes

The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in "Metcalfe's law”–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

An intelligence officer in the field is supposed to keep his home office informed of what he is doing. That is quite true, but with some reservations, as he may overdo it. If, for example, he tells too much or asks for instructions, he is likely to get some he doesn't relish.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

One cannot say everything at once.

I can't spend my whole day talking to people.

You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.

Language cannot say everything, fortunately.

When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

But what can you say in a letter?

I'm not supposed to communicate something that's completely unrealistic.

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

There's only so much you can say to any group of players before they stop listening.

There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.

I didn't go off speech on Mexico; I want off speech on virtually everything.

Language can do what it can’t say.

I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.

There is a point you can definitely lose the audience and sometimes you don't know where it is.

It's almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There's only so much trouble I can get in.