The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

Language is the dress of thought.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

Let no such man be trusted.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

To be social is to be forgiving.

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

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

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

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

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

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.