Communication & Communications Quotes

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

A different language is a different vision of life.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

In our rush to connect everything [via the Internet], we have created a monster of bad guys just waiting to take advantage of a weak line of code in a very complex program.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.