Areas Quote by Howard Rheingold

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue…

— Tom Wolfe

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal…

— Leonard Mlodinow

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

— Margaret Heffernan

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Brains affect brains through far more means than words and listening.

— Drew Pinsky

Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.

— Geoffrey Hinton

Speaking is physically difficult for me.

— Gabrielle Giffords

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and…

— Isaac Asimov

Our method of speaking is interrupted, hard-edged... a lot of consonants and noises.

— Florian Schneider

“People could play blindness and deafness game when it comes to your work and achievements. But your work will alway be a mega picture…

— Euginia Herlihy

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both

— John Andrew Holmes

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of…

— Seth Shostak