Able Quote by Marshall McLuhan

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

— N. Scott Momaday

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk…

— Stephen Hawking

“Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;”

— Aldous Huxley

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and…

— Isaac Asimov

Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a…

— H. Emilie Cady

“The study of a language . . . allows its students to hear a people's 'interpretation (or misinterpretation) of messages from environment to human.'…

— Sy Montgomery

Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by…

— Stephen Hawking

“Language had arrived from outer space and mated together lizards and monkeys or whatever until it had customized a host which could sustain it.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“That outering or uttering of sense which is language and speech is a tool which “made it possible for man to accumulate experience and…

— Marshall McLuhan

Technology has changed how people communicate, how people relate, the speed at which this takes place. To ignore that, in the name of preaching…

— Tony Evans

Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.

— Santiago Calatrava

Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche