140 character Quote by Stephen Colbert

Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?

— Anonymous

“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

If you have a tool like Twitter that gives everybody the ability to speak, but in 140 characters at a time, it's almost inevitable…

— Zeynep Tufekci

“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

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between…

— Fernando Pessoa

The so-called incorrigibles were not the way people said they were. I found a lot of character in some of these people.

— Jim Brown

Because we can't communicate, there's a lot of misunderstanding.

— Chen Shui-bian

How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?

— Anonymous

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

— Dee Hock

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to…

— Quintilian

Misunderstandi ngs happen because we do not understand that different people have different styles of communication.

— Tony Alessandra

Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that…

— Daniel H. Wilson