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Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. – Jaron Lanier

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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when theres a single numeric average. But if its a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and thats crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. – Jaron Lanier

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If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost. – Jaron Lanier

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Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart. – Frank Luntz

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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them. – Leo Rosten

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No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. – Sir Winston Churchill

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I slept for four years. I didnt study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts. – Don DeLillo

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I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending. – Cory Doctorow

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