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"Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye."
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"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."
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"Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves."
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"The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status."
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"The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them - on twitter."
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"If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language, one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it."
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"If you want to appear more confident-speak slowly, articulately, clearly, and deliberately. Communicating with clarity will not only help you build more confidence in yourself, but it will inspire respect from others."
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"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
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"I'll tell you a piece of news - I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell."
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"All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it."
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"Be careful what you say and do around a writer, your words and actions may become material."
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"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
Certainty


"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."
Information


"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
Future


"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
Future


"Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?"
Time


"A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding."
Technology


"Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old."
Old


"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station."
Technology


"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary."
People


"Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye."
Communication
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