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You Can't Reach the Brain Through the Ears
When another person speaks you hear both less and more than they mean. Less because none of us can express the full extent of our understanding, and more because what another says is constantly mixing and interacting with your own knowledge and puzzlements.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
It will not arrive in the same spirit in which it was sent.
Rich Litvin • The Prosperous Coach: Increase Income and Impact for You and Your Clients (The Prosperous Series Book 1)
As Sean Illing, a co-author of “The Paradox of Democracy,” told me, “McLuhan says: Don’t just look at what’s being expressed; look at the ways it’s being expressed. And then Postman says: Don’t just look at the way things are being expressed; look at how the way things are expressed determines what’s actually expressible.” In other words, the mediu... See more
Ezra Klein • I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message
When I was very young, I didn’t trust speech, believing that other, nonword languages would intrude, complicate, or obstruct meaning, body language, facial expressions, timing, inflection, and so I wrote notes, letters.
Percival Everett • Dr. No: A Novel
