Brian Christian Quotes

We go through digital life, in the twenty-first century, with our guards up. All communication is a Turing test. All communication is suspect.

Brian Christian

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• Digital life

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• Honest communication is a rare thing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Communication
  • Honest
  • Rare

• I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Important
  • Actor
  • Communication

• It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Great
  • Day

• All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Help

• It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Believe
  • Love
  • True

• We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • Children
  • Trying

• I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Internet

• Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Life
  • Guy
  • You

• Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Communication

• To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Great
  • Father
  • Communication

• Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Today
  • Communication
  • Gossip

• I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Me
  • Said
  • Communication

• Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Death
  • End
  • Perspective

• People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Music
  • Communication

• Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Good
  • Music
  • Personality

• In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Reality
  • Past

• We're in the world of communications more and more, tough we're in communication less and less.

  

  Wright Morris
  • World
  • Communication
  • Tough

• The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • People
  • Water

• From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Success
  • Learn
  • Private Life

• If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Live
  • Culture

• We go through digital life, in the twenty-first century, with our guards up. All communication is a Turing test. All communication is suspect.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Communication
  • Turing test
  • Digital life