Edward R. Murrow Quotes on Communication
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He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
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The politician is : trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
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The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
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The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
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People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.