Message Transmission Quotes

The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on Earth because they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. Nothing can travel faster than light, so however good their instruments they can't see in affect the future. So there is no particular reason they should be sending us messages at this time.

The medium obscured the message.

People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

I think that clothes and accessories define and describe who we are. I can't see many differences between them; they are indeed a way to introduce ourselves to other people, and they help us transmitting a message to others.

I am sending this message to you by wire, since I want to be certain that this message reaches you in the right place at the right time.

Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to sensitize the word to an important cause, to defend certain values.

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

There is in essence no difference between a sealed letter and a telephone call.

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.