Quotes About Communications

#1. My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

Alvin Adams

#2. If a man says, "I have had such-and-such spiritual communications, I am a great man," he has never had any communion with Jesus at all; for "God hath respect unto the lowly: but the proud He knoweth afar off.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

Erich Fromm

#4. I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.

Edward Abbey

#5. We are in the midst of a VoIP communications revolution,

Jeff Pulver

#6. As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.

Barton Gellman

#7. You're born. You live. You go on some diets. You die.

Opus Communications

#8. The communications of humanity obviously are trending towards that future point at which virtually all information will be spontaneously available and copyable at the individual level: beyond that, a vast transformation must occur

Gene Youngblood

#9. Here's the reality, for the next couple of years the Mac OS will experience increasing security threats and mark my words, the company will have to seek outside expertise in the form of a head of security communications in the next 12 months.

Stephen Toulouse

#10. It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander

#11. Twitter was created as an open platform, an open communications ecosystem, and I hope it can stay that way. You have to be really careful not to let money get in the way of that.

Mike McCue

#12. Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.

Andrew Skurka

#13. The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

Shimon Peres

#14. Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.

Richard Armitage

#15. Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

David Allen

#16. The communications delays between Earth and Mars can be half an hour or more, so the people on the ground can't participate minute by minute in Mars surface activities.

Henry Spencer

#17. All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.

Rusty Schweickart

#18. I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

Anant Agarwal

#19. I sometimes work with a communications and media training firm called KNP Communications. It's nice to bring the research to the practitioners; I learn a lot watching how they put it into practice, and I know they like to be on top of what's happening on the research front.

Amy Cuddy

#20. Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.

Fritz Leiber

#21. Today's merger makers are not ad people; they're building communications companies.

Jerry Della Femina

#22. The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.

George Shultz

#23. There's a shift to mobile apps; I'd like to see a more pervasive communications experience, and I think Skype can contribute to that.

Tony Bates

#24. it is not clear that the government needed dragnets to catch Zazi. If Zazi was e-mailing with terrorists under surveillance, a search warrant would have sufficed to capture his communications. Similarly,

Julia Angwin

#25. Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

Paul Rand

#26. I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?

Craig Hatkoff

#27. More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

Studs Terkel

#28. Romans themselves never read silently, but always aloud; they regarded language as speaking and listening, and viewed writing as merely a convenient means of recording communications spoken and heard.

Anonymous

#29. Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.

Robert Kennedy

#30. Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.

Jeremy Rifkin

#31. For every step forward in electronic communications, we've taken two steps back in humanity. People know how to use a computer and answering machines but have forgotten how to connect with one another. Our society is unraveling. We're too self-obsessed.

Letitia Baldrige

#32. Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#33. When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!

Napoleon Bonaparte

#34. Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.

Vladimir Putin

#35. I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.

M.I.A.

#36. The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications.

Kevin Mitnick

#37. If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.

Brock Yates

#38. In just 20 years terrorism, communications, the jet plane and the increase of wealth and knowledge have forced, to varying degrees, world leaders into a haunted and secret peerage whose links with the people they guide are meticulously cleansed and staged.

Hugh Sidey

#39. Most change initiatives have token elements of "change management," but these rarely address culture. They are mostly communications plans that inform but do not transform.

Larry Senn

#40. Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

George F. Kennan

#41. Your business is not hardware. Your business is communications. Your business is access to information.

Michael Crichton

#42. If the enemy is the invading party, we can cut his line of communications and occupy the roads by which he will have to return; if we are the invaders, we may direct our attack against the sovereign himself.

Du Mu

#43. If you subscribe to Sherry Turkle's argument that the prevalence of text-based communications is leading to a decline in face-to-face conversations and the skills to conduct them, the shift makes total sense.

Aziz Ansari

#44. We're in the world of communications more and more, tough we're in communication less and less.

Wright Morris

#45. We commend the commission, under the leadership of Chairman Martin, for recognizing the reality of today's communications marketplace and for fostering an environment where there will be greater choice in communications services and providers.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#46. It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.

Regis McKenna

#47. Most angelic communications are felt or heard rather than seen.

Dallin H. Oaks

#48. Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.

Gene Green

#49. I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.

William J. Clinton

#50. I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

Tim Berners-Lee

#51. Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career,

James Hansen

#52. While the federal government is required by law to document publicly its wiretapping of phone lines, it is not required to do so with Internet communications.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#53. It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.

Roberto Civita

#54. Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

Eric S. Raymond

#55. There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.

Barton Gellman

#56. The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

Pope John Paul II

#57. We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.

Juliette Gordon Low

#58. There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

Randal Marlin

#59. To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?

Chip Heath

#60. Integrated marketing communications is a way of looking at the whole marketing process from the view point of the customer.

Philip Kotler

#61. I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

Sarah Zettel

#62. Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists, people raised eyebrows and called you a conspiracy theorist. Those days are over.

Edward Snowden

#63. The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.

Dorothy Denning

#64. The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.

Michael Eric Dyson

#65. It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.

Juan Enriquez

#66. The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.

Peter Diamandis

#67. The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment.

James Gleick

#68. I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.

Elizabeth Barton

#69. The focus on contribution by itself supplies the four basic requirements of effective human relations: communications; teamwork; self-development; and development of others.

Peter F. Drucker

#70. I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations.

Carolyn Warner

#71. Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

Gordon Brown

#72. The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

Jim Clark

#73. The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.

Herbert Schiller

#74. The mind, as a defense against the volume of today's communications, screens and rejects much of the information offered it. In general, the mind accepts only that which matches prior knowledge or experience.

Al Ries

#75. Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

Major Owens

#76. The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

Dustin Moskovitz

#77. With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.

Dorothy Denning

#78. Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

R. Lee Ermey

#79. Hearing God cannot be a reliable and intelligible fact of life except when we see his speaking as one aspect of his presence with us, of his life in us. Only our communion with God provides the appropriate context for communications between us and him.

Dallas Willard

#80. I love and enjoy writing.
Writing is a form of daily communication.
It a communication to higher divine power.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#81. 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 W. Welch Jr.

#82. From my perspective, the state has to assume responsibility for the integrity of international communications.

Thomas De Maiziere

#83. Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

Annie Lennox

#84. A world remade in the image of Walt Disney, and driven by an increasingly sophisticated communications technology, is the total breakdown of civilization.20

Morris Berman

#85. When I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions, likely opposition, implementation, legal issues, resource dimensions, communications - and how the problem fits into a stream of other issues.

Robert Zoellick

#86. I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything.

Bob Parsons

#87. IT and the entire communications business clearly have the greatest potential for growth. But if you're talking about sheer size, the steel and auto industries will remain at the top.

Ratan Tata

#88. The coming together of the Communications Internet, the Energy Internet, and the Logistics Internet in an Internet of Things provides the cognitive nervous system and physical means to integrate all of humanity in an interconnected global Commons that extends across the entirety of society.

Jeremy Rifkin

#89. The dark organ music filled the Department of Post-Mortem Communications. Moist assumed it was all part of the ambience, although the mood would have been more precisely obtained if the tune it was playing did not appear to be Cantate and Fugue for someone Who Has Trouble with the Pedals.

Terry Pratchett

#90. The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

Robin Hayes

#91. If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.

Gordon Smith

#92. I really sing songs that move me. I'm not in show business. I'm in the communications business. That's what it's for me.

Richie Havens

#93. The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.

L. Lionel Kendrick

#94. Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology.

Jean-Marie Messier

#95. He read political science, mass media communications, finance, and international conflict resolution,

David Lagercrantz

#96. Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.

Alistair Cockburn

#97. I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

Joshua Lederberg

#98. Lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications

Charles Dickens

#99. Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed.

Steve Largent

#100. The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

Edward R. Murrow