Babel Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far…

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Paul Allen

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

— Conrad Wolfram

“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

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

— Andrei Codrescu

“There is only one universal language, which is the language of numbers and proportions that are so striking and stunningly built into the Great…

— Willem Witteveen

“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

“This was the eloquence of alphabets and numeric systems, now fully realized in electronic form, in the zero-oneness of the world, the digital imperative…

— Don Delillo, Cosmopolis

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful…

— John von Neumann

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave…

— Elie Wiesel

A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without…

— Maurice Wilkes

Our technology has surpassed our humanity

— Albert Einstein