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.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

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.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Smiles are the language of love.

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

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!

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

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

To be social is to be forgiving.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

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.

I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.