“More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.”
Studs Terkel (1912–2008) American author, historian and broadcaster
Actually Robert Browning, from Andrea del Sarto. "Less is often more" was used still earlier by Christoph Martin Wieland.
Misattributed
“More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.”
Studs Terkel (1912–2008) American author, historian and broadcaster
Samuel Gompers (1850–1924) American Labor Leader[AFL]
The Shoe workers' journal, Volume 16 (1915) p. 4
Variant: What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more … opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
“A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.”
William James Mayo (1861–1939) American surgeon
Speech before a gathering of physicians (circa 1922) http://books.google.com/books?id=qYIHAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+specialist+is+a+man+who+knows+more+and+more+about+less+and+less%22&pg=PA35#v=onepage
Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989) Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973.
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
Jean Baudrillard book Simulacra and Simulation
Source: Simulacra and Simulation
“[…]schools reward people who study more and more about less and less.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“We are all old children, more or less serious, more or less filled with ourselves.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist