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It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination....Of what use are speech sounds and tools without…

— Louise J. Kaplan

“The takeaway from all these observations is that our species seems, somehow, to derive more benefit from speaking than from listening.”

— Kevin Simler

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue…

— Tom Wolfe

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music…

— Gustave Flaubert

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

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you…

— Tom Wolfe

Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology…

— Mark Pagel

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

— Robert Breault

Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.

— Geoffrey Hinton

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal…

— Leonard Mlodinow

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

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

— Margaret Atwood