#communications

Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean. But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met. To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point. And the two countries are still at war. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#babylon #borders #bridge #communication #communications

I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they died, I wrote a book; why not a letter? A mysterious but truthful answer is that while I can gear myself up to do a novel, letters, real-life communications, are too much for me. I used to rattle them off easily enough; why is the challenge of writing to friends and acquaintances too much for me now? Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key--as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#correspondence #letters #loners #solitude #communication

There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#done #improve #lot #need #things

We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising. ↗

— Lee Scott

#associates #care #communications #customers #fiscal

The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#advance #after #again #army #become

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. ↗

— William Bernbach

#apathy #breeds #communications #familiarity #familiarity breeds

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#communications #costs #e-mail #eliminated #information

Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#being #communications #continued #data #driven

We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#also #capital #communications #cost #deployment

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives. ↗

— Robert Welch

#central government #communications #control #daily #daily lives