I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.

Taryn Simon


The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
Rick Boucher


My dad was always whistling around the house, and I just thought that's part of communication in my family.
Geert Chatrou


To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.
Cliff Shaw


It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
Oliver Evans

I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will be eventual communication between the two species.
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh


Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
Rockwell Kent

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Charles Dickens

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Peter Drucker

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

George Carlin

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can

achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

Bill Gates

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Epictetus

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw 



Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao Tzu 



Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
Emma Thompson 



Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Charles Dickens 



I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill Gates 



A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain