We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
The Commonplace