Bits Quote by Daniel Levitin

“It seems we can manage at most seven bits of information—such as differentiated sounds, or visual stimuli, or recognizable nuances of emotion or thought—at…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but the average mind can understand about 350 words per minute—that is a 200-word…

— John Piper

“Through the years, I have heard that the average person speaks at about 150-160 words per minute, but can listen at a rate of…

— Susan C. Young

Often it takes more time to explain a task than to do it yourself, and when you do it yourself there is no data…

— Grant David McCracken

Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

— Don Herold

When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though,…

— Nicholas G. Carr

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

— Harold Evans

You can transmit a thousand times more information.

— Yuri Milner

We spend roughly 60 percent of our communication time listening, but were not very good at it. We retain just 25 percent of what we hear

— Suman Rai

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

— Bob Kahn

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to…

— Edward R. Murrow

“Scientists now know the brain receives 400 billion bits of information each second. To give you some idea of just how much information that…

— Pam Grout