Communication Systems Quotes

Cellular phones will absolutely not replace local wire systems.

Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals.

Languages are the keys of science.

The telegraph and telephone, like the post-office system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people.

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

The availability of reliable and redundant communications is critical for our public safety.

Well, the United States will continue to be a world leader in wireless communications.

At present, it's not really clear who is in charge of protecting the nation from solar and nuclear EMP.

States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

MH370 is a Boeing 777 aircraft. It was built and equipped by Boeing. All the communications and GPS equipment must have been installed by Boeing. If they failed or have been disabled, Boeing must know how it can be done.

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.

Airplanes don't just disappear - certainly not these days with all the powerful communication systems, radio and satellite tracking, and filmless cameras which operate almost indefinitely and possess huge storage capacities.

So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place.

Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.