Writing Quote by Jared Diamond

“Ancient Egypt, like that of the Olmecs (Bolivia), emerged all at once and fully formed. Indeed, the period of transition from primitive to advanced…

— Graham Hancock

“Thus, Sumerian writing came to consist of a complex mixture of three types of signs: logograms, referring to a whole word or name; phonetic…

— Jared Diamond

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

— Marshall McLuhan

“The first to overcome the problem were the ancient Sumerians, who lived in southern Mesopotamia. There, a scorching sun beating upon rich muddy plains…

— Yuval Noah Harari

To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed a kind…

— Michel Seuphor

“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come to the…

— Robert Bringhurst

“The direction in which the characters look determines the direction in which they should be read. This alternate or boustrophedon mode of writing also…

— A. H. SAYCE

“We could argue that the ancient Egyptians were positively constrained by their hieroglyphic system of writing to express abstract qualities in a crudely physical…

— Jeremy Naydler

“As the number of inhabitants grew, so did the amount of information required to coordinate their affairs. Between the years 3500 BC and 3000…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Besides Sumerian cuneiform, the other certain instance of independent origins of writing in human history comes from Native American societies of Mesoamerica, probably southern…

— Jared Diamond

“Perhaps the most important single step in the whole history of writing was the Sumerians’ introduction of phonetic representation, initially by writing an abstract…

— Jared Diamond

“The history of alphabetic writing goes back to the consonantal writing system used for Semitic languages in the Levant in the 2nd millennium B.C.…

— Sampson Geoffrey