Any Quote by Joshua Foer

While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution.

— Noam Chomsky

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

— Niklaus Wirth

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if…

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Cullen Murphy

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

— Elif Batuman

“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there…

— Mark David Ledbetter

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

— Guy Deutscher

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

Invent a new language anyone can understand.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind,…

— Oliver Sacks

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around…

— Terence McKenna

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of…

— Philip Glass