Communication system Quotes

“Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But my communication system disqualifies repartee: the keenest rapier grows dull and falls flat when it takes several minutes to thrust it home. By the time you strike, even you no longer understand what had seemed so witty before you started to dictate it, letter by letter. So the rule is to avoid impulsive sallies. It deprives conversation of its sparkle, all those gems you bat back and forth like a ball-and I count this forced lack of humor one of the great drawbacks of my condition.”

“Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.”

“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.”

“Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.”

“Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.”

“It would be extremely naive to conclude anything other than the following: America's most vital secrets are in the hands of our adversaries because Secretary Clinton intentionally avoided using official government communication systems.”