#nic

I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that... But it's what I meant. ↗

— Mary Eva Swatek

#communication #humor #meaning #communication

The essence of communication is intention. ↗

— Werner Erhard

#intention #communication

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Some say that the main cause of this very serious difficulty lies in the fact that human beings are basically made of clay, which, as the encyclopedias helpfully explain, is a detrital sedimentary rock made up of tiny mineral fragments measuring one two hundred and fifty-sixths of a millimeter. Until now, despite long linguistic study, no one has managed to come up with a name for this. ↗

— José Saramago

#vocabulary #communication

It is a wholly deplorable state of affairs when specialists in any discipline talk only to each other, and accordingly I have sought to write a book which will communicate some of the fruits of research in a manner which will make them accessible to all. ↗

— Richard Fletcher

#scholarship #specialization #communication

She didn't say anything—at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they each had a thousand tongues talking, each in a language I didn't speak. ↗

— J.X. Burros

#eyes #scarlet-spotlight #communication

Forget language. Afer all, it bores me. The senses. And this much is true: any communication must transcend the immediacy of solidarity, must be mediated by ideological and economic connections. And there the senses reappear. No use giving in to words. ↗

— V Y Mudimbe

#language #senses #word #communication

Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [...] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#organization #communication

[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#media #communication

to bar communication between intellectuals, who are always our best hope of peace, is particularly self-defeating and inane. It declares, inter alia, that we have a) made up our minds about what we think, b) closed our minds to what others think, and c) chosen to go on hearing nothing with which we happen to disagree. ↗

— Howard Jacobson

#communication

Readers of my online journal - I refuse to use the word blog because it sounds like something that lives on a riverbed and communicates through farts ↗

— Yahtzee Croshaw

#communication