Arguing Quote by David Crystal

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

— Guy Deutscher

“language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.”

— Fereidoon Yazdi

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one…

— Alan Turing

There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.

— Elif Batuman

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

If print was invented tomorrow, it would be the death of digital.

— Vaughan Oliver

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

— Andrei Codrescu

“Technology has also rapidly invaded our language. Every year the Oxford English Dictionary adds new words that it feels deserve to be part of…

— Adam Gazzaley

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good…

— Carl Sagan

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

— Lily Tomlin

We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day…

— Gershom Scholem