Communication Quote by Anatol Rapoport

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific…

— Roman Jakobson

The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the word 'information'…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

To understand possible means to understand impossible.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge…

— Morris F. Cohen

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

— Anonymous

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

— Storm Jameson

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

— Harold Evans

The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to…

— Gao Xingjian

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

— Anonymous

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

— Anonymous