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"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."

Joshua Foer on Communication

More quotes about Communication

  • "A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."

    Mark Twain on Communication

  • "Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good."

    Lao Tzu on Communication

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

    George Bernard Shaw on Communication

  • "Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."

    Charles Dickens on Communication

  • "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."

    Bill Gates on Communication

More quotes by Joshua Foer

  • "One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens."

  • "When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory."

  • "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."

  • "Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all."

  • "Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time."

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