communication Quotes

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

I don't know how to write love letters.

All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had.

For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.

Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

Our goal is to make it so there's as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you're starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.