Causes Quote by David Foster Wallace

“Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes call “exformation,” which is a certain quantity…

— David Foster Wallace

“Communication isn't about telling our story. That's undisciplined, self-indulgent, and often illusory. The power of communication is getting audiences to listen--and to care.”

— Helio Fred Garcia

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

— Edward Abbey

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

— Blake Mycoskie

So when you tell a joke, you want to make someone laugh, or if you tell a story about someone who had a heart…

— Peter Guber

The really funny moments you notice throughout your life are very seldom generated by one person telling a joke.

— Ronnie Corbett

I tell stories. Because I believe you can do things that joke tellers can't do, and that is, bring your audience along.

— Bill Cosby

Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the…

— Jimmy Carr

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I…

— Art Donovan

“The brevity of text messages, for example, and the fact that we are able to communicate with less than 140 characters at a time…

— Gregory Berns

“exformation, which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a…

— David Foster Wallace