Crafts Quote by Joshua Foer

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that…

— Noam Chomsky

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

— Eyvind Kang

At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

— Cullen Murphy

Invent a new language anyone can understand.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words…

— Joshua Foer

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

— Guy Deutscher

Language was invented to ask questions.

— Eric Hoffer

I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop…

— Steven Pinker

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

— Andrei Codrescu

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

— Charles Darwin

“Sapiens use language to create completely new realities.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the…

— Joshua Foer