Built Quote by Margaret Atwood

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

— Andrei Codrescu

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

— Guy Deutscher

Languages evolve; ideas blend together. In computer technology, we all stand on others' shoulders.

— Paul Allen

Language allows us to talk about the past and plan the future. We can teach children about things that are not present. And above…

— Jane Goodall

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The…

— Jamais Cascio

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

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

— Dale Spender

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in…

— Adrienne Rich

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

— Leonard Shlain

Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.

— Denis Donoghue

“just because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to determine the…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“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