Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
When the hell is Warren Moon going to retire? I mean, this guy is older than the cuneiform in Nebuchadnezzar's tomb. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
