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“There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called "state security" in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court - and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.”

“We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.”

Trying Seems Talking Our Lives Information Communication Messages Function Our Time Urgent Exchanging Sending A Message

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“Telephones in 2020 will be archaic, relics of a bygone era-like transistor radios are today. Telephony, which will be entirely IP-based by then, will be a standard communications chip on many devices. We'll probably carry some kind of screen-based reading device that will perform this function, though I assume when we want to communicate verbally, we'll do so through a tiny, earplug-based device.”

Want Kind Today Reading Communication Standards Function Assuming Radio Communicate Screens Tiny Eras Devices Telephones Chips Relics Transistors

Author:Josh Quittner

“When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order.”

Giving Kind Persons Order Possibility Communication Concerned Function Instruments Regulation Traffic Strict

Book:Behavior in Public Places

Source: Behavior in Public Places

“Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.”

Communication Function Mere

Author:George Russell

“Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.”

Thinking Two Purpose Communication Activity Tools Function Safety Sake Marketing Foolish Distraction Mobile Optional Safety Net

Author:Andrew Skurka

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”

People Speak Imagination Silence Communication Quiet Function Introvert My Imagination Quiet People

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.”

People Ifs Language Talking Clear Communication Terrible Opposites Let Me Function Errors Grammar Transparent Correcting Facilitate Clear Communication

Author:John Green

“It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and ... a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services.”

Thinking Years Seems Together Science Individual Lines Information Communication Band Function Library Connected Wide Reasonable Users Wire Present Day Storage

Book:In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990

Source: In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990

“It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of course; simultaneity is identity. But to our perceptions, that simultaneity will function as a transmission, a sending. So we will be able to use it to talk between worlds, without the long waiting for the message to go and the reply to return that electromagnetic impulses require. It is really a very simple matter. Like a kind of telephone.”

“The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.”

Ideas Problem Understanding Design Communication Higher Easier Essentials Function Complexes Profession Data Visuals Our Society Retention Complex Problems Auditory

Author:Will Burtin

“In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the function of literature is communication between things that are different simply because they are different, not blunting but even sharpening the differences between them, following the true bent of written language.”

Different Running Age Literature Language Differences Written Risk Media Communication Function Following Surface Bent Sharpening Written Language

Author:Italo Calvino