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" Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. "

Jaron Lanier

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Personal

Communication

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" Each couple's version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I'll think, 'Yikes, they have horrible communication! They're going to get divorced!' And then I'll hear about them at another time and think, 'Wow, they love each other so much!' "

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" People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don't want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical. "

" I think any great culture is born out of transparent, authentic communication. You almost can't overcommunicate. You can try, and you might think, 'Oh, do I really have to say this again?' And the answer is yes. "

" You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values. "

" If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends. "

" The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" At the turn of the twentieth century, board games were becoming increasingly commonplace in middle-class homes. In addition, more and more inventors were discovering that the games were not just a pastime but also a means of communication. "

" Communication is number one, and we have to communicate honestly and openly with each other. "

" Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication. "

" The pen is the tongue of the mind. "

" You can now eat bananas from Chile; you couldn't do it before you had air shipping. Now, communication technology enables the shipping of labor. "

" Communication is something we all take for granted. "

" Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me. "

" You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. "

" Good words are worth much, and cost little. "

" If you wish to be a writer, write. "

" Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. "

" Thinking of Internet chat rooms or AIM as a kind - there's such an intimacy and honesty to tapping on your phone, despite how quick people are to damn digital means of communication as emotionless or too abstract. "

" In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. "

" Cove is essentially a collaboration, coordination and communication tool for the administration of organizations and communities, from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship Club to church groups and schools. "

" But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools. "

" Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline. "

" As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s. "

" It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere. "