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Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow. -- Rowan Williams
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. -- Dave Barry
My daughter emails me. When your daughter starts to email you instead of talk to you... It's horrible. You cannot forget human communication. -- Martha Stewart
Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication. -- Glenn Greenwald
Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people. -- Kenneth Lonergan
However revolutionary it may be, the Internet still hasn't altered the basic law of human communication: Being nice to your interlocutors is a good way to start any negotiations, particularly, when being hostile is an open invitation for a cyber-fight. -- Evgeny Morozov
Conversation: The slowest form of human communication. -- Don Herold
The circle is the fundamental geometry of open human communication. -- Harrison Owen
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication. -- Thomas Berry
How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day? -- Jerry Spinelli
Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying. -- Chuck Jones
The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow". -- Anatol Rapoport
As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate home for that sense of ambiguity. -- Pankaj Mishra
In the next 50 years, the increasing importance of designing spaces for human communication and interaction will lead to expansion in those aspects of computing that are focused on people, rather than machinery. -- Terry Winograd
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another. -- M. Scott Peck
Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days -- Eli Pariser
Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place. -- Beeban Kidron
The fundamental deficiency in HTML is that it reduces hypertext and the intertwinedness of human communication to a question of how it is rendered and what happens when you click on it. ... HTML is to the browser what PostScript is to the laser printer. -- Erik Naggum
I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail. -- Eric Schmidt
I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea. -- Terence McKenna
Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a visual record of the person who created it - his skill as a designer, his philosophy as an artist, his feeling for... the details of each letter and the resulting impressions of an alphabet or a text line. -- Will Burtin
Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human. -- Jan Koum
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success. -- Paul J. Meyer
I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will be eventual communication between the two species. -- Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. -- Abraham Maslow
Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication. -- Deborah Eisenberg
I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs. -- John Warnock
Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them. -- Leonard Mlodinow
The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church. -- John Sweeney
It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning. -- Dan Pallotta
Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth. -- Anthony Carmona
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem. -- Daniel Everett
Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal. -- James E. Faust
You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills. -- Lesley Gore
Only through communication can human life hold meaning. -- Paulo Freire
Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible. -- W. H. Auden
Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication. -- Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication. -- Juliette Lewis
Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings. -- John P. Kotter
Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc. -- Rigoberto Gonzalez
Smiles, like humor, are the most serious and complex forms of communication used by human beings. -- Gayle Pemberton
For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another. -- Emmet Gowin
NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions. -- Bill Gates
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. -- Hans-Georg Gadamer
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. -- Edward Said
Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance. -- Ordway Tead
Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created. -- Mike McCue
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans. -- Daniel J. Levitin
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans. -- Daniel J. Levitin
The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest. -- Robert Grudin
One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is. -- Sunday Adelaja
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion. -- Werner Herzog

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