The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
This is the power of images, the ambiguity. You are never completely sure of anything. With written language, it's more concrete. You… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other… — Frank Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly… — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own… — John Ray Copy Share Image
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. — Jean Berko Gleason Copy Share Image
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
