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When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?

People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in fact we're not really communicating, either. We're not talking to each other. There's just all these screens and wires and technology in between.

In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.