Quotes of the day for 12, January 2009

“90% of Communication is just presentation. You should think that over, why speak in the first place if no one can understand you. You are communicating for a listener, for them, not for yourself. So you should make sure they at least understand.

This is why academics cannot easily affect any significant direct change in the world when dealing with the general public, it is their style, they are talking to specialists, not to common people. But somehow they expect common people to understand them ? You don’t do this, you should consider this. Are you trying to communicate or do you just like to hear the sound of your gas” – Khalid Bey, while chatting over coffee

“..Most practitioners of the ‘hard’ sciences look down their noses at what they refer to as the ‘fuzzy’ sciences–those domains that are  limited to passive observation, with no or only limited application to the real world. This is an understandable chauvinism; when they  look around them, they see bridges, skyscrapers, automobiles,  airplanes, cellular phones, CAT scanners, synthetic fibers, all the  fruits of their labors. What could compete with all that?

Because of this chauvinism (by definition, in fact), a fusion, synthesis, or synergy, take your pick of terms, combining very powerful aspects of certain hard (mathematically malleable) sciences and soft (non-quantifiable), has been seriously overlooked.

This may in fact be a good thing; if the repercussions of such a blend of domains are as powerful as they seem, the practitioners of such a new field will, quite literally, wield considerable influence…” -‘Atreides’ (Michael Wilson) of Seven Pillars Partners and The Nemesis Group, Security and Information warfare consultant.

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” – William Blake

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