Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

Words are but the signs of ideas.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.